Bloomberg/04-01-2020 LONDON: Coal consumption is set to rise in the coming years as growing demand for electricity in developing countries outpaces a shift to cleaner sources of electricity in industrialized nations. While use of the most polluting fossil fuel had a historic dip in 2019, the International Energy Agency anticipates steady increases in the next […]

The Guardian/01-01-2020 LONDON: Zero-carbon energy became Britain’s largest electricity source in 2019, delivering nearly half the country’s electrical power and for the first time outstripping generation by fossil fuels. Following a dramatic decline in coal-fired power and arise in renewable and low-carbon energy, 2019 was the cleanest year for electrical energy on record for Britain, […]

Business Recorder/24-11-2019 CAIRO: Egyptian authorities urged that they have signed several multimillion-dollar energy investment accords including a $430-million deal for Texas-based Noble Energy to pump natural gas through the East Mediterranean Gas Company’s pipeline. Under another agreement with Noble, which will also be financed by the US International Development Finance Corporation, the energy company will […]

Business Recorder/21-11-2019 BEJING: China plans to add new coal power plants equivalent to all of the EU’s current generating capacity, putting the world’s biggest emitter out of sync with its commitments to combat climate change, researchers said Wednesday. China built enough new plants between January 2018 and June 2019 – nearly 43-gigawatt worth of capacity […]