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The Sydney Morning Herald: One of the country’s largest infrastructure investors has ruled out investing in any new thermal coal assets, after announcing a $C2.8 billion ($2.9 billion) acquisition of an energy-efficient heating operation in Canada. IFM Investors, which manages $148 billion for Australian superannuation funds, announced plans on Wednesday to acquire a 50 per […]
Simon Nicholas
Around US$50 billion of LNG projects in Asia at risk of cancellation
Two astonishing figures have circulated in the Asian energy sector in the past month: LNG prices have increased by 1000% since record lows of April 2020, and Vietnam has increased its rooftop solar by 9,000 megawatts (MW) within 12 months. The two figures represent two different potential futures that Bangladesh could choose: the former points […]
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S&P Global Market Intelligence ($): The Polish government approved Feb. 2 an energy policy to 2040 that targets a reduction in coal’s share of the power generation mix from 72% in 2020 to 56% in 2030 through the introduction of offshore wind and the further development of onshore wind and solar. The government approved the […]
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Reuters: South African coal company Exxaro Resources will not invest in new thermal coal assets, Chief Executive Mxolisi Mgojo said on Tuesday. Exxaro, which exports coal as well as supplying it for domestic power generation, said the company would continue to supply thermal coal to state-owned power utility Eskom’s Medupi and Matimba power stations through […]
Christina Ng
Energy giant CHG's coal power business faces numerous challenges
China Huaneng Group Co. Ltd (CHG) is one of the biggest coal power businesses in the world with over 100 gigawatts (GW) of coal-fired power capacity. Like many of its Chinese peers, CHG is also cash hungry. The company has been actively raising new debt including a USD 500 million perpetual bond in December 2020 […]
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Reuters: NRG Energy Inc will shut down indefinitely the power source for what had been the only U.S. project capturing carbon from a coal-fired generator until it was idled last year, a spokesman said on Friday. The company notified the Texas grid operator, ERCOT, on Wednesday that the Petra Nova gas plant would be mothballed […]
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Thomson Reuters Foundation: The United States will produce a plan to end international financing for fossil fuel projects, its special climate envoy John Kerry said Wednesday, as senior British and U.N. officials urged donor nations to meet a flagship climate finance promise. Speaking at an online panel organised by the World Economic Forum, Kerry said […]
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Bloomberg: Renewables are for the first time the dominant power source in Europe’s electric grid. In a year that saw pandemic restrictions sap energy demand across the continent, the drop in supply came mostly from more expensive power from fossil fuels. That helped green sources take the biggest share of the European Union’s generation, a […]
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Bloomberg: Vattenfall AB plans to turn the site of its recently shuttered Moorburg coal power plant in northern Germany into a hub for turning wind and solar power into hydrogen. The Swedish state-owned utility is riding the growing enthusiasm for hydrogen, with many countries seeing the clean fuel as key to a low-carbon economy. Governments […]
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Argus Media: China’s biggest coastal power generator, state-controlled utility Huaneng, has laid out plans to add over 80GW of clean energy-based power capacity in the coming years, potentially curbing its demand for coal. Huaneng plans to develop more than 80GW of additional clean energy power capacity by the end of 2025, taking clean energy to […]
IEEFA: Bangladesh’s power system overcapacity problem is getting worse
Overcapacity, along with increased reliance on expensive coal and LNG imports, threaten to increase the cost of power generation20 January 2021 (IEEFA Bangladesh): Overcapacity in Bangladesh’s power system has worsened and threatens to deteriorate further according to a new briefing note released by the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA) today. Data from the Bangladesh Power Development Board’s (BPDB) latest annual report shows that overall power capacity utilisation in fiscal year […]