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Rising coal demand overshadows Southeast Asia's transition to renewable energy
HANOI, Vietnam -- Southeast Asia's demand for coal is growing faster than anywhere else in the world, undermining efforts to lower carbon emissions that contribute to global warming. Regional coal demand will rise by more than 4% a year through the…
Operation Of Australia's Largest Coal Power Station Extended To 2029
Authored by Rex Widerstrom via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The 2,880-megawatt Eraring coal-fired power station will continue to operate until 2029, operator Origin Energy has announced. The facility is the country's largest power station by…
Oaktree lawyers up as Gupta restarts Tahmoor coal mine sale; six parties keen
The owners of the mothballed Tahmoor coking coal mine have formally launched a sale process, seeking to end months of false starts. Despite repeated claims from embattled industrialist Sanjeev Gupta that a deal was imminent, the asset –…
Russia aims to become one of world's leading energy players: official
MOSCOW, Jan. 22 (Xinhua) -- Russia is gradually strengthening its position in the global energy sector and aims to become one of the world's leading energy players in the new multipolar world, Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak wrote in a column…
WV Senate panel OKs coal severance tax exemption tied to $57M+ in lost state revenue
A panel of West Virginia lawmakers has approved legislation that could cost the state millions to extend its history of severance tax relief for the struggling coal industry. The West Virginia Energy, Industry and Mining Committee on Monday…
Coal ministry holds emergency meet on Naini coal block tender, seeks transparency from Telangana govt
Amid the controversy surrounding the tender process for the Naini coal block, the Union Coal Ministry on Wednesday convened an emergency meeting with the Singareni Collieries Company Limited. Speaking to reporters, Union Coal Minister G Kishan…
BKW AG (BKWAF) Discusses Impairment of Wilhelmshaven Coal Power Plant and Shift Toward H2-Ready Gas Project in Germany Transcript
BKW AG (BKWAF) Discusses Impairment of Wilhelmshaven Coal Power Plant and Shift Toward H2-Ready Gas Project in Germany January 19, 2026 7:00 PM EST Robert Itschner - Chairman of the Executive Board & CEO Martin Zwyssig - CFO, Deputy to CEO & Member…
Coal Ministry appoints team to study SCCL tender cancellation issue
Even as the Telangana Government directed the Singareni Collieries Company Ltd to cancel the tender notification for the Naini coal block, the Centre has constituted a two-member technical committee comprising Chetna Shukla, Deputy Director…
How permanent is Trump's assault on climate action?
One year ago, with one of the first strokes of his presidential Sharpie, President Donald Trump signed an executive order declaring a “national energy emergency,” making good on a campaign promise to “drill, baby…
US ramps up pressure on UK to abandon net zero
Mr Trump's tirade caused division in Davos. Climate and sustainability have often been central to the WEF agenda – including a star turn by Greta Thunberg, the climate campaigner, in 2020. “At the World Economic Forum, far more…
Renewables muscle fossil fuels out of EU electricity market, says research
Solar and wind power outperformed fossil fuels in the European Union for the first time last year, a new high watermark on Europe's transition to green and autonomous energy. The two sources of energy generated 30 percent of EU electricity…
For His Latest Artwork, Pierre Huyghe Taps a Physicist & a Philosopher
Pierre Huyghe, 'Camata' film still, 2024. Courtesy of the artist, Marian Goodman Gallery, Esther Schipper, Hauser & Wirth, Chanel Crousel Gallery, Taro Nasu, and Anna Lena Films. © Pierre Huyghe/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn Walk into Halle am Berghain…
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Inside world's largest renewable energy park - proof the green transition isn't dead
The ground is impossibly flat, white with salt, and largely uninhabited – a no man's land where not even cellphone signal can reach. The landscape seems to stretch endlessly as you drive through Gujarat's salt flats, a land so saline and…
China's massive project to funnel clean energy from Tibet enters new phase
China has kicked off construction on the southern section of the Tibet-Guangdong ultra-high-voltage power transmission line, an ambitious scheme to channel vast amounts of green energy generated high in the mountains of western China to factory…
China Wins as Trump Cedes Leadership of the Global Economy
In a long, rambling address that was by turns bombastic, aggrieved and self-congratulatory, President Trump pronounced last rites on American leadership of the liberal democratic order forged by the United States and its allies after World War II.
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