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17.06.26 - 06:00
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Mongolian coal riding the rails towards a brighter future (SCMP)
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In southeastern Mongolia, not far from the Khangi border checkpoint with China, a railway track ends just short of the fence, awaiting the day when a direct connection to the country's prosperous southern neighbour becomes a reality.
But if everything goes according to plan, that day could come this year, with the track in Mongolia's Dornogovi province linking to an extension on the other side of the border that will allow transshipment and seamless rail delivery to China's Mandal port in the......
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15.06.26 - 17:49
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Trump wants to put a $75m coal terminal in this liberal California city. Residents aren′t having it (The Guardian)
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Residents of West Oakland, which suffers from toxic waste and high pollution rates, rally against a coal export facilityWest Oakland, a California neighborhood known for its rich history of Black activism from the Pullman Porters' union to the Black Panthers, might not seem like the site of the country's next great coal project.But that's exactly what the Trump administration is pushing for – with the injection of $75m to build a sprawling coal export terminal in the nearby port of Oakland. Continue reading......
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10.06.26 - 22:51
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Solar Tops Coal In US Power Mix For The First Month Ever (ZeroHedge)
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Solar Tops Coal In US Power Mix For The First Month Ever
Solar power held a record-high 12.8% share of US electricity supply in May, overtaking coal-generated power for the first full month on record, energy think tank Ember said in a report on Wednesday. As OilPrice notes, while the share of solar-generated power jumped to a record high for a full month, the share of coal in the U.S. electricity mix slumped to 12.2% last month, the fourth-lowest monthly share of coal ever.
Solar generated an all-time high total of 45.5 terawatt-hours (TWh) in May, up by 17% from a year earlier and surpassing the previous record set in July last year, according to Ember's data. In May, solar also became the third-largest source of electricity in the U.S., behind natural gas and nuclear power generation.
At the same time, coal generation hit an all-time monthly low of 39.3 TWh in April 2026. Coal power output rebounded to 43.4 TWh in May, but still remained 11% below May 2025 levels.
“Overtaking coal for th...
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