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Coal consumption falling globally: IEA

GLOBAL coal consumption fell 1.9% to 5.4 billion tonnes of coal equivalent last year, the second year of decline, because of lower gas prices, a surge in renewables and improvements in energy efficiency, according to the International Energy Agency Coal 2017 report.

Lou Caruana
Coal consumption falling globally: IEA

Coal demand is down 4.2% over the past two years, nearly matching the two-year decline in the early 1990s, which remains the biggest recorded drop since the IEA started compiling statistics more than 40...

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