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Thursday, 23 December 21
ANNUAL U.S. COAL-FIRED ELECTRICITY GENERATION WILL INCREASE FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE 2014 - EIA
 From December 20 through December 30, Today in Energy will feature some of our favorite articles from 2021. Today’s article was originally published on October 18.
We expect 22% more U.S. coal-fired generation in 2021 than in 2020, according to our latest Short-Term Energy Outlook (STEO). The U.S. electric power sector has been generating more electricity from coal-fired power plants this year as a result of significantly higher natural gas prices and relatively stable coal prices. This year, 2021, will yield the first year-over-year increase in coal generation in the United States since 2014.
Coal and natural gas have been the two largest sources of electricity generation in the United States. In many areas of the country, these two fuels compete to supply electricity based on their relative costs. U.S. natural gas prices have been more volatile than coal prices, so the cost of natural gas often determines the relative share of generation provided by natural gas and coal.
Because natural gas-fired power plants convert fuel to electricity more efficiently than coal-fired plants, natural gas-fired generation can have an economic advantage even if natural gas prices are slightly higher than coal prices. Between 2015 and 2020, the cost of natural gas delivered to electric generators remained relatively low and stable. This year, however, natural gas prices have been much higher than in recent years. The year-to-date delivered cost of natural gas to U.S. power plants has averaged $4.93 per million British thermal units (Btu), more than double last year’s price.
The overall decline in U.S. electricity demand in 2020 and record-low natural gas prices led coal plants to significantly reduce the percentage of time that they generated power. In 2020, the utilization rate (known as the capacity factor) of U.S. coal-fired generators averaged 40%. Before 2010, coal capacity factors routinely averaged 70% or more. This year’s higher natural gas prices have increased the average coal capacity factor to about 51%, which is almost the 2018 average.
Although rising natural gas prices have resulted in more U.S. coal-fired generation than last year, this increase in coal generation will most likely not continue. The electric power sector has retired about 30% of its generating capacity at coal plants since 2010, and no new coal-fired capacity has come online in the United States since 2013. In addition, coal stocks at U.S. power plants are relatively low, and production at operating coal mines has not been increasing as rapidly as the recent increase in coal demand. For 2022, we forecast that U.S. coal-fired generation will decline about 5% in response to continuing retirements of generating capacity at coal power plants and slightly lower natural gas prices.
Source: EIA
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Thursday, 27 January 22
2022 - A YEAR OF REBALANCING FOR METALS AND MINING - WOOD MACKENZIE
If 2021 was the year of rebound for metals and mining (M&M) commodities, then 2022 is shaping as the year of rebalance, says Wood Mackenzie, a ...
Wednesday, 26 January 22
MARKET INSIGHT - INTERMODAL
While it is logical that most of the S&P reports of the first weeks of the year are linked to very limited activity as reflected in the weekly ...
Wednesday, 26 January 22
INDONESIA: DME PROJECT IS ECONOMICALLY VIABLE AS STUDY DEMONSTRATES
The government is encouraging downstream coal processing or increase in coal added value, for example by turning coal into Dimethyl Ether (DME) to ...
Wednesday, 26 January 22
COMMODITY PRICES COULD SOAR IF THE RUSSIA-UKRAINE CRISIS ESCALATES - ING
It appears that a number of commodity markets are starting to at least price in some geopolitical risk around the growing tension between Russia an ...
Wednesday, 26 January 22
INDONESIA'S COAL BAN SENDS PRICES SOARING, OTHER EXPORTERS FAIL TO STEP UP - REUTERS
Indonesia’s short-lived ban on exporting coal has sent ructions through the seaborne market for the fuel in Asia, with the fallout likely to ...
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- Commonwealth Bank - Australia
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- The State Trading Corporation of India Ltd
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- Jorong Barutama Greston.PT - Indonesia
- Economic Council, Georgia
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- Global Business Power Corporation, Philippines
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- Coal and Oil Company - UAE
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- Maheswari Brothers Coal Limited - India
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- Baramulti Group, Indonesia
- Ministry of Finance - Indonesia
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- Romanian Commodities Exchange
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- Goldman Sachs - Singapore
- Bulk Trading Sa - Switzerland
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- Electricity Authority, New Zealand
- Eastern Energy - Thailand
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- Ministry of Mines - Canada
- Meralco Power Generation, Philippines
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- Bharathi Cement Corporation - India
- Singapore Mercantile Exchange
- TNB Fuel Sdn Bhd - Malaysia
- ASAPP Information Group - India
- Wilmar Investment Holdings
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- Videocon Industries ltd - India
- Interocean Group of Companies - India
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- Independent Power Producers Association of India
- Toyota Tsusho Corporation, Japan
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- Merrill Lynch Commodities Europe
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- Siam City Cement PLC, Thailand
- GAC Shipping (India) Pvt Ltd
- White Energy Company Limited
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- Planning Commission, India
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- SN Aboitiz Power Inc, Philippines
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- Bhoruka Overseas - Indonesia
- Indian Energy Exchange, India
- Mercator Lines Limited - India
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- European Bulk Services B.V. - Netherlands
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- Jindal Steel & Power Ltd - India
- MS Steel International - UAE
- Semirara Mining Corp, Philippines
- The Treasury - Australian Government
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- Gujarat Electricity Regulatory Commission - India
- McConnell Dowell - Australia
- Bank of Tokyo Mitsubishi UFJ Ltd
- Asia Pacific Energy Resources Ventures Inc, Philippines
- Energy Link Ltd, New Zealand
- Makarim & Taira - Indonesia
- Rio Tinto Coal - Australia
- Pipit Mutiara Jaya. PT, Indonesia
- CNBM International Corporation - China
- The University of Queensland
- Bhushan Steel Limited - India
- Ministry of Transport, Egypt
- IHS Mccloskey Coal Group - USA
- IEA Clean Coal Centre - UK
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- India Bulls Power Limited - India
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- Africa Commodities Group - South Africa
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