Bituminous coal is a solid mineral fuel. It is a sedimentary rock formed from dead plants, mainly during the Carboniferous period, around 360-300 million years ago – in the Palaeozoic era. Over time, with heat and pressure, the dead plant material wa [...]
Carbon is one of the most common elements in the Universe. It is the chemical building block of life on Earth and carbon products are an inextricable part of our everyday lives. As the basis of several chemical compounds, carbon is found in food, fue [...]
The special panel, brought to life by Angela Merkel, estimated that the coal phase-out in German power sector will take place in 2038 or sooner. In response to this statement, RWE the lar [...]
Pieter Cleppe, the Head of Open Europe, an eurosceptic think tank points out several issues related with the implementation of the Germany's plan to abandon the power technologies reliant [...]
The representatives of Exxon Mobil, the largest publicly controlled oil company, took an action to block the proposals of two of the investors group, which regard setting the goals for li [...]
After suffering consequences of the Fukushima 2011 fault, the Japanese government decided to diametrically redirect the energy generation sector, mainly towards the coal-fired power plant [...]
Court in Australia rejected Gloucester Resources Limited (GRL) appeal to build a new coal mine in New South Wales’ Hunter Valley. Originally GRL’s investment had been denied by New South [...]
The objective of achieving a 20% share of renewable energy in total consumption assumed in the European Union for 2020 may be impossible to achieve. According to Eurostat data, 17.5% was [...]
The Ministry of Energy Zhecho Stankow informed that Bulgaria won't resign from coal-fired power plants which are the basis of energy sector in the country. The decision was anounced according to the Integrated National Energy and Climate Plan by 2030 [...]
According to the report „BP Energy Outlook – 2018 edition” recently observed growth in global coal consumption will slow down rapidly until 2040. Decrease demand in China and OECD will be [...]
