coal and oil, going back to 1650 in the case of coal and 1859 in the case of oil. We find annual rates of increase in real … price of greater than two percent are found for coal in one cycle, 1842 to 1897, and for oil in two cycles, 1897 to 1953 and … 1953 to 2009. However, there is no noticeable change in coal prices for the earliest cycles, from 1675 to 1731 and 1731 to …

options that each are capable of contributing significantly to the abatement of global CO2 emissions: nuclear energy and coal …-based power production complemented with CO2 capture and storage (CCS). We also investigate how, in scenarios from an integrated … extensive the improvements of coal-based power equipped with CCS technology would need to be if our model is to significantly …

procurement practices by coal- and natural gas-fired electricity generating plants in the United States following state … detailed dataset that links confidential, shipment-level data on the price of virtually all of the fuel delivered to coal- and … price of coal drops by 12% at deregulated plants relative to matched plants that were not subject to any regulatory change …

This paper evaluates changes in fuel procurement practices by coal- and gas-fired power plants in the United States … plants substantially reduce the price paid for coal (but not gas), and tend to employ less capital-intensive sulfur abatement … more productive coal mines. I show how these results lend support to theories of asymmetric information, capital bias, and …