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Australian Coking Coal Miner Gets Private Loan From RRJ Capital
Australian coking coal miner Tahmoor Coal Pty has secured a $140 million private-credit loan from RRJ Capital to restart its operations. The five-year senior secured facility has been signed but not yet funded, according to people familiar with the…
Hormuz Crisis to Push Global Coal Demand to Record High
The International Energy Agency expects coal demand to increase this year in response to ongoing oil and gas trade constraints stemming from the closure of the Strait of Hormuz. Several countries have been forced to turn back to coal to fill the…
Gas, coal and petrol? No, we don't need it
To submit a letter to The Age, email. Please include your home address and telephone number below your letter. No attachments. See here for our rules and tips on getting your letter published. In his eloquent description of the crossroads we are at…
Nvidia chip use pollutes as much as a Russian coal giant, report says
Emissions from the use of Nvidia's chips could be on par with those from burning coal sold by Russian state-owned company Russian Coal, according to a new report. The report estimates that operating Nvidia chips sold since 2022 could have generated…
Hormuz Crisis And El Niño Drive Global Coal Demand To Record 8.94 Billion Tonnes In 2026
Global coal demand is forecast to climb 1.2% to a record 8.94 billion tonnes in 2026, driven by geopolitical disruption in the Strait of Hormuz and adverse weather conditions. Reduced liquefied natural gas flows through the Strait of Hormuz have…
Nearly 40% of India's coal power plants running critically low on fuel
Nearly 40 per cent of India's coal-fired power plants are operating with critically low fuel stocks due to a surge in power demand amid hotter-than-usual weather linked to El Niño, government data showed on…
Solar Power Is Getting So Cheap That It's Almost Unbelievable
Though the price to install new solar panels has been trending downward for a while, it's officially reached a new milestone: “offensively cheap.” Provocative new reporting by the Financial Times highlighted the new paradigm around…
LNG/Coal Recap
Recapping my recent thermal coal and LNG pieces and where they stand now. One F#ck-Up After Another (Optimising for efficiency over resiliency, until something breaks...) Advancing One Crisis at a Time (Positioning for the coming LNG bidding war.)…
World leaders in New York to grapple with climate. Fuel prices, AI and disasters complicate things
World and business leaders gathering this week in New York are being forced to grapple with the increasingly urgent costs of climate change, soaring energy prices and the human toll from this summer's oppressive heat waves, prolific wildfires and…
Concerns raised over Qld's call-in process for assessing renewable projects
Renewable energy advocates are calling for a better framework for development processes to ensure investors are not scared off. The Queensland government is using extraordinary powers to call in energy projects, leaving both communities and…
Hyperscale data-centre developer's vision for Scotland's future? 'Tomatoes
Wilson is the son of a farmer, who grew up on a farm in Ireland, has worked with the agricultural sector in the past – bringing individual small wind turbines to farms. He describes ILI Group as a “green energy company” and his…
Meet Jev, the new AI model built to make decisions instead of generating text
A few days since its launch, Jev has already been added by popular model gateway platforms such as Vercel, Cloudflare, LangChain, and Langfuse to their stacks. TypeSafe AI on Monday, September 21, further announced that Jev is now available to…
Trade, industry hail Mangaluru rail rejig
Stakeholders are hopeful that the Railway Board's decision to merge the Mangaluru railway region with the Mysuru division of South Western Railway (SWR), effective October 1, will boost the prospects of trade and industry in coastal Karnataka. At…
Labor picks a path through farmland to bring offshore wind to Victoria
The Carroll government has revealed its preferred route for a 60-kilometre transmission line through Victorian farmland to connect offshore wind projects to the electricity grid, pushing ahead with the plan less than a week after pausing a separate…
India, Canada to hold next round of talks from October 5 for proposed trade pact: Goyal
The negotiations for a Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA) between India and Canada are progressing and the next round of talks will be held from October 5, Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal said on Monday (September 21…
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