Enel S.p.A. (“Enel”) announces that its Chilean subsidiaries Enel Chile S.A. (“Enel Chile”) and Enel Generación Chile S.A. (“Enel Generación Chile”) have informed the market that their Boards of Directors have decided to accelerate the closure of Bocamina coal-fired power plant, located in Coronel.

Russian coal exports may fall by 10 to 22% in 2020

India's coal production would rise to 700 Mt in the current fiscal year (April 2020-March 2021)

Southeast Asia today is viewed as the last likely bastion of strong growth in coal demand globally. But just as Indian coal-fired power generation fell an entirely unprecedented 26TWh or -3% during 2019, we note expectations for sustained decades-long growth in Southeast Asian coal-fired power generation is far from a locked-in certainty.

U.S. output from the U.S. coal-fired generating fleet dropped to 966,000 gigawatthours (GWh) in 2019

March coal exports were up 1.2% from 6.19 million mt in February but 25% lower than the 8.36 million mt exported in the year-ago month.

China's coal imports over the January to April period jumped 26.9% to 126.73 million tonnes,

Russia’s share of the global coal export market is projected to expand to 25 percent from the current 11 percent.

Energy prices overall (which also include natural gas and coal) are expected to average 40 percent lower in 2020 but see a sizeable rebound in 2021.

India's coal import in March stood at 15.74 million tonnes (MT), down 27.5 per cent over last year,