Monday, July 8, 2013

China, Netherlands best candidates for the generation using coal in the United States

Of gas in the Journal of power

American coal markets of receptors, such as the Netherlands and China should use more coal for electricity production. Imports of us coal worldwide a 14% increase in the first quarter of 2013, thanks to the low global coal prices as producers of electricity in the United States prefer to use the abundant domestic shale gas production, show data from the US Energy Information Administration (EIA).

The main markets of ten coal-reception were in European countries such as the Netherlands, United Kingdom, Brazil, Italy and France, as well as Asian markets fueled with gas, as the Japan, China, South Korea. The Turkey was also a consumer of coal privileged.

The European country which has been the largest consumer of coal from the United States was the Netherlands, buy two times more than any other European country, 4 074 195 tonnes, although this figure is only marginally up corresponding to the amount that it consumed last year.

In the Netherlands, inherited circumstances are responsible for the construction of new coal-fired power, a UK Department of Energy and climate change (DECC) report found last April.

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