Coal news and updates

Global electricity production from coal is on track to fall by the largest amount on record this year as countries switch to cleaner alternatives.Reductions in burning of the most carbon-intensive fossil fuel in Britain, Germany, South Korea and other developed countries are outstripping increases in China, Vietnam and elsewhere, meaning that the overall total is expected to decline by 3 per cent in 2019.This is significant because critics of efforts by Britain and other countries to stop burning coal often argue that there is little point when China and India keep opening new coal-fired power stations.However, this year India is on course to burn slightly less coal to produce power than last year 

 

Source : https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article