From the year-ago month, U.S. coal exports declined 41.3%. Over the eight months, exports were 44.6 million st, down 31% year on year.

Driven by unprecedented low fuel prices, gas power production increased by 7.1% during the first seven months from last year, while coal dipped dramatically by 27.5%.

International institutional investors that are the long-term owners of generation assets in other markets have generally been cautious about acquiring renewable assets in Australia, perceiving the risk/reward balance to be inferior to other investment opportunities.

Russia has 36 nuclear power units in operation and three new ones under construction. In March, Russia's Ministry for Economic Development published a draft strategy for low-carbon development to 2050. The strategy's basic scenario would see nuclear output grow from 203 TWh in 2017 to 225 TWh in 2030 and 260 TWh in 2050. State nuclear corporation Rosatom's foreign orders include 36 units, which are at various stages of implementation.

Как сопредседатели Российско-Японского Консультационного энергетического Совета министры обсудили актуальные вопросы двустороннего сотрудничества в сфере энергетики.

EIA forecasts that consumption of petroleum and liquid fuels globally will average 93.1 million b/d for all of 2020, down 8.3 million b/d from 2019, before increasing by 6.5 million b/d in 2021.

The investment expected to be required for Poland's nuclear power is PLN150 billion (USD39.7 billion).

“What’s quite staggering here is that direct and indirect subsidies to fossil fuels are almost 20 times higher than to renewable energy,” said Michael Taylor, head of renewable cost status and outlook at Irena.

Indonesia had set the price for August at $50.34/mt, and for September 2019 at $65.79/mt.

In July 2020, the German coalition government has approved a €40bn compensation package for power utilities, which operate hard coal-fired power plants in the country and should shut them down by 2038 at the latest.

Global coal demand is expected to reach around 5,600 million tonnes by 2024,

India spent 1.58 trillion rupees ($21.28 billion) on importing 247 million tonnes of coal,

Россия остается одним из лидеров на рынке угля и входит в тройку ведущих мировых экспортеров,

Vietnam has spent around $2.6 billion on importing 36.5 million tons of coal in the first seven months of this year, up 50 percent in volume year-on-year.

monthly Brent spot prices will average $43/b during the second half of 2020 and rise to an average of $50/b in 2021.