Coal will exit Australia’s power market despite AGL’s recalcitrance
Mining News Pro - The bid by a green billionaire to buy Australia’s most polluting company may have stumbled at the first hurdle, but it’s likely the race is far from over.
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Coal’s US downfall is a lesson for power markets
Mining News Pro - Imagine that you’re a power engineer in 1975, designing and building the U.S. electrical grid. Coal is undoubtedly king, generating nearly three times as much as gas, oil, or hydropower.
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Trump’s best shot at saving coal is an obscure power market
Mining News Pro - In the past three months, regulators appointed by President Donald Trump have disrupted ambitious plans to combat climate change in electric grids serving 85 million people in the U.S., from Chicago to New York to Washington.
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The coal miner who bet everything on U.S. power markets and lost
Mining News Pro - Eleven years ago, Cloud Peak Energy Inc. made an all-or-nothing bet its rivals were unwilling to match: that coal would remain indispensable to the U.S. power sector.
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