News China is slowly weaning itself off coal, figures show China is making progress in phasing out coal-fired power stations in favour of renewable energy, according to the Global Energy Association (GEA). Its research shows that the rate of building…
News China Energy Investment to spend $24bn on coal-to-oil plant in Xinjiang China’s biggest miner has announced has begun work on a $24bn plant to turn China’s future coal surpluses into chemicals. China Energy Investment (CEIC) said it is building the plant…
News Germany is turning its big open coal mines into lakes German utility RWE has chosen a Turkish steelmaker to supply pipe sections for its planned pipeline from the River Rhine to turn opencast coal mines in the Ruhr into giant…
News Germany’s economic slump may force it to rely on coal, business figure warns Germany’s plans to base its energy transition on a fleet of hydrogen-fuelled power plants may fall victim to the country’s growing economic malaise, leading to a continued reliance on coal,…
News Japan says it won’t build any new coal power stations Japanese prime minister Fumio Kishida told the COP28 climate summit in Dubai that his country would no longer build “unabated” coal-fired power stations. Japan is the world’s third largest coal…
News Report reveals “extraordinary” growth of coal-power approvals in China China approved 106GW of coal-fired power stations last year, the biggest increase since 2015, a report finds. The report’s authors, Finland’s Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA)…
News Hill to convert polluting coal plant in Kazakhstan to gas New York-listed construction consultancy Hill International has won a contract to help convert a combined heat and power plant in Almaty, Kazakhstan, so it burns gas instead of coal. The…