coal power
Climate Coal Governments Other Good Stuff United Kingdom
British government halts support of overseas coal plant development
Prime Minister Boris Johnson says UK to immediately cease all direct official development support for overseas thermal coal mining or coal power plants.
Report highlights increasing danger of relying on Australia’s ageing gas and coal power plants, which have broken down once every 3.2 days on average over past two years.
AGL Coal Markets News & Commentary Utilities
Loy Yang A unit returns, just in time for another blistering heat-wave
Unit 2 of AGL Energy's Loy Yang A to return to service this week after a seven month absence – in time for a major heatwave that will test...
Australian Federal Government Coal Governments Markets Renewables Research Groups, Institutes and Universities
Coal seen as biggest threat to Victoria power supply
The biggest threat to Victoria’s future power supply comes not from more renewables, but unreliable brown coal power plants, and government efforts to prop up black coal units.
Climate Coal Research Groups, Institutes and Universities
Carbon capture technology could make pollution worse, says Stanford report
New report out of America’s Stanford University finds that adding carbon capture and storage technology to coal plants could have worse pollution outcomes than having none at all.
Coal Governments News & Commentary Research Groups, Institutes and Universities
Ageing coal plants put Australia on map of global air pollution hotspots
NASA data reveals global toxic air pollution hotspots over Victoria’s Latrobe Valley and Lake Macquarie and the Hunter Valley in NSW – homes to Australia's old coal plants.
Coal Governments Western Australian Government
Western Australia to close Muja coal units – to lower power bills, stabilise grid
W.A. announces staged retirement of Muja C generator, saying it is “no longer viable” to keep the costly and unreliable coal units operating.
Rio Tinto opts to power Kennecott copper mine in Utah with renewables, via power purchase agreement, after permanently shutting the facility’s coal plant.
Biomass Coal Governments Renewables Solar Western Australian Government
WA ditches Collie solar and biomass plans in favor of “trail adventures”
Plans to develop biomass and utility-scale solar generation facilities in the WA coal town of Collie have been swept aside, in favour of other “future industries."
Global coal power capacity in pre-construction has fallen nearly 70% since 2015, when it was 1,090GW. In 2018, proposed capacity dropped nearly 25%, from 447GW in 2017 to 339GW.
