BEIJING (Reuters) - China’s state planner ordered utilities this week to stop stockpiling thermal coal and told miners to slash prices, two sources familiar with the matter said, the government’s first direct intervention to cool coal prices since mid-2016. The National Development...

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The Energy and Mineral Resources Ministry cannot give an exact time of when the policy to limit coal production can commence. The limitation is stipulated in the Energy Minister`s Regulation No.25/2018 on Coal and Mineral Mining Businesses that was recently...

South Korea's adoption of an annual sulfur limit of 0.4% as-received basis for thermal coal used to fuel its coal-fired power plants could radically change the Asian country's demand profile for imports, according to market sources familiar with the move. Power plant operators in South...

State-run thermal power plants in India's coastal states have again begun buying overseas coal due to domestic coal shortages, government and utility officials said, in a setback for the country's long-term plans to eliminate imports. After no significant imports in 2017, government...

European gas- and coal-fired power generation margins have come under strong pressure as outright power prices trail behind a rising fuel complex and rallying EUA carbon allowances. In Germany, the front-year clean dark spread (CDS) for a modern coal plant (45% efficiency) has fallen below...

NUSA DUA, Indonesia (Reuters) - Asia’s coal miners, shippers and traders are seeing strong demand and rising prices for their fuel, and they expect this happy situation to persist for several years to come. It was a challenge to find anybody pessimistic about the outlook for coal in Asia,...

NUSA DUA, Indonesia, May 7 (Reuters) - Indonesia is targeting annual production of 481 million tonnes of coal this year and next, a mining ministry official said on Monday, as producers of the fuel are struggling to get new heavy equipment and parts. That’s up around 4 percent from the 461...

Glencore has wrapped up the purchase of a stake in a large Australian thermal mine Australia, underscoring its position as the world’s biggest exporter of the fossil fuel. The London-listed company on Friday said it had received the regulatory approvals needed to complete the acquisition...

U.S. electric utilities are expected to shut hundreds more of their coal-fired power generators in the coming years, extending a long trend away from coal and toward natural gas that has cast a pall over the mining industry. But not every U.S. coal company sees a bleak future. Ramaco...

Indonesian coal miners reported higher average selling prices in the first quarter of 2018, supported by strong Chinese demand and weather-related supply disruptions. Rains have been impacting production at various producing regions in Indonesia over the past few quarters. However, miners were...