China's capacity resumption rate for all coal firms has reached 76.5%.

Russia's Sibanthracite group aims to boost the annual export capacity of Russian coals to 100 million mt with newly launched infrastructure project to build the second tunnel on Baikal Amur Mainline railway.

EIA now expects global petroleum and liquid fuels demand will rise by 1.0 million b/d in 2020, which is lower than the forecast increase in the January STEO of 1.3 million b/d in 2020, and by 1.5 million b/d in 2021.

At the urging of China’s energy regulator, coal producers accelerated output resumption. About two-thirds of national capacity restarted as of Thursday.

Министр энергетики Российской Федерации Александр Новак встретился с Министром энергетики Республики Казахстан Нурланом Ногаевым

EIA forecasts Brent prices will average $61/b in 2020; with prices averaging $58/b during the first half of the year and $64/b during the second half of the year. EIA forecasts the average Brent prices will rise to an average of $68/b in 2021.

U.S. coal and nuclear power plants will collectively provide more than 25% of electricity generation through 2050.

The coal power industry acknowledges that to play a stable role in future power markets, it needs to modernize, and perhaps even overhaul its long-held status as a “conventional generator

India’s coal import increased by 7.6 per cent to 185.88 million tonnes (MT) in the April-December period of the current fiscal.

«Мы имеем прочные экономические связи и многолетние договоренности в части поставок и транзита угля, газа, нефти и нефтепродуктов, а также передачи электроэнергии. Электроэнергетические системы наших стран работают в синхронном режиме, что существенно повышает их надежность и экономические показатели ”, - сказал глава Минэнерго России.

«Если говорить об общих задачах, в этом году мы должны принять Стратегию развития энергетики до 2035 года. Также ставим перед собой задачу принятия стратегий и схем развития газовой, нефтяной отраслей и программу развития угольной отрасли до 2035 года – эти документы у нас на повестке дня», – сообщил Министр.

U.S. electricity generation from renewable sources such as wind and solar to surpass nuclear and coal by 2021 and to surpass natural gas in 2045.

In November 2019, Coal India decided to advance its coal production target of 1 Gt/year by two years, from 2026 to 2024.

The German cabinet on Wednesday backed plans to exit coal as an energy source by 2038 at the latest as part of Berlin’s efforts on climate protection,

U.S. renewable energy consumption totaled 924 trillion British thermal units (Btu), which accounted for 12% of U.S. total primary energy consumption.