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Spain’s shale gas reserves
Spain is the fifth largest energy consumer in Europe and has practically no domestic production of liquid fuels or natural gas. It has made significant progress in diversifying into renewable energy but, this only accounts for about 9% of its gross inland consumption. A quarter of consumption is fuelled by natural gas and half by petroleum, both of which Spain has to import.
read more... 12/03/2013
UK coal consumption increased 32.5% in 2012
According to the latest statistics released by the Department of Energy and Climate Change, consumption of coal in UK increased by 32.5% in 2012, reaching its highest level since 1996, while gas output fell by 33.8%, its lowest level since the same year. Coal power surpassed gas, becoming the biggest single source of UK electricity in 2012.
read more... 01/03/2013
China: energy consumption increased 3.9% last year
According to a recent report released by the National Bureaus of Statistics the country used the equivalent of 3.62 billion tones of coal, corresponding to about 66,4% of the total energy consumed, at the same time as oil and natural gas made up something like 18.9% and 5.5%, respectively.
read more... 25/02/2013
Europe’s dirty secret: it consumes more coal
Europe’s consumption of coal increased last year after a long decline, due to a surge of cheap American coal on global markets.
read more... 08/02/2013
China’s consumption of coal nearly as much as the rest of the world altogether
According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, China is now burning almost as much coal as the rest of the world combined, due to an increase of more than 200% in Chinese electric generation, in comparison to 2000 levels, fueled mostly by coal. Currently Chinese coal demand accounts about 47% of global consumption.
read more... 31/01/2013