May 30, 2026

Progress in Clean Coal Combustion Is a Remarkable Achievement, So Let’s Get on with Building More New Coal Plants

May 25, 2026

South Africa is poised to delay the retirement of about a fifth of its coal-fired electricity-generation capacity as gas projects.

May 25, 2026

Chinese firms are accelerating the pace at which they propose new coal-fired power plants, even as the government moves to rein in growth after the rapid expansion in recent years.

February 28, 2026

Have you ever wondered how not to do a grid reliability study? Well, dear reader, today is your lucky day!

February 25, 2026

Eskom, the world’s biggest emitter of the toxin sulphur dioxide, presented a study that argues against the cost of installing equipment to limit emissions, risking a breach of a World Bank loan agreement and riling environmental activists.

February 20, 2026

It’s almost like China doesn’t give a toss about climate change, eh? Just quietly, while everyone was gushing tears over a two year extension to a fifty year old Australian plant, China added a gargantuan number of brand new coal plants.

February 15, 2026

Wow. What a turnaround. President Macron, a man of The Blob, has come right out and blamed the Spanish Blackouts on renewables.

February 13, 2026

The South African coal mining sector is still a "vibrant and indispensable" component of the energy and raw material supply chain, owning to coal continuing to play a major role in the country's economy. Coal accounts for about 80% of South Africa's....

February 12, 2026

United States President Donald Trump has ordered the Pentagon to buy electricity generated by coal, his latest effort to boost demand for the fossil fuel amid its declining cost competitiveness and climate change concerns.

February 9, 2026

RBCT has seen a 56% improvement in its security situation, reported RBCT CEO Alan Waller at the recent Southern African Coal Conference 2026, held in Cape Town.

February 6, 2026

Mineral resources minister Gwede says predictions of coal's demise have proved premature, telling investors and industry veterans that the fuel remains central to South Africa's economic growth. Mantashe was speaking at the McCloskey Southern Africa...

February 5, 2026

What a difference a single year makes. The once-dominant push to radically reshape society in hopes of averting climate catastrophe has collapsed.

January 31, 2026

Germany approaching energy state of emergency... shutdown of heavy industries. The consequence: another economic body blow the country cannot afford...gross policy negligence

January 17, 2026

Coal is not and never was a stranded asset. Such is the demand for electricity; Donald Trump wants every reliable generator he can get. One coal plant in Colorado was a week away from....

December 28, 2025

The geniuses who are planning New York’s energy future think that they can make intermittent wind and solar generators work to power the electrical grid by the simple device of providing some battery storage.

December 3, 2025

Utility-scale lithium-ion battery energy storage systems (BESS), together with wind and solar power, are increasingly promoted as the solution to enabling a “clean” energy future.

November 30, 2025

Weather-dependent power systems are beautiful in theory — capricious in practice. There is a hint of divine comedy in it all. At the very moment Australia’s power system operator delivered its plan for stress-testing...

November 25, 2025

The G20 is an opportunity for coal companies to step out of the “coal closet” and show South Africans, and the world, that real sustainability begins with restoring balance and realism to climate and energy policy, writes Mike Teke....

November 22, 2025

Trump Admin To Wash Away Biden-Era Water Rule After Years Of Contentious Debate - Ding-dong, the WOTUS witch may finally be dead. I first wrote about...

November 20, 2025

This is a guest post by Benjamin Zycher, a valued colleague of mine at the American Enterprise Institute. Ben and I agree on many things and disagree on some. I am happy to host his guest post today challenging my recent post on the “climate cops...

November 19, 2025

Why are emissions still increasing when the EU and the US spent more than $US700bn in 2024 on green investments such as solar panels, wind turbines, batteries, hydrogen, electric cars and power grids?

November 18, 2025

I would like to begin by acknowledging the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we gather and extend my respects to Elders past and present, and to the Traditional Custodians of all the lands I visit around the world.

November 13, 2025

The IEA has been forced by U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright to restore the agency’s original mission of providing accurate, reality-based data about the world’s energy picture. It has moved in that direction with its forecasts in the World Energy Outlook 2025....

November 13, 2025

The Paris Climate Agreement turns ten this month. But COP21’s outcome — in which 195 countries pledged to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions to achieve a global temperature outcome — is in serious peril. COP30, now in session....

November 11, 2025

With the United Nations climate summit, COP30, now in full swing in the humid jungle city of Belém, Brazil, Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist Bill Gates has cut through the noise with a blunt truth...

November 10, 2025

Many in the West gaze in awe at China’s apparent dominance in green energy—churning out enough solar panels, wind turbines, electric vehicles and batteries to flood global markets.

November 8, 2025

South Africa’s inland coal market faces a critical need for reform, with inconsistencies in supply, declining coal quality and logistical bottlenecks threatening the reliability of the fuel that underpins much of the country’s ind....

November 7, 2025

A strong renewed thrust is under way for the creation of a platinum group metals (PGM) commodities exchange in South Africa to take advantage of South Africa's massive PGMs endowment at a time when the....

October 31, 2025

Bill Gates speaks at the annual Bloomberg Philanthropies Global Forum in Manhattan, New York City, U.S., September 24, 2025.REUTERS. As politicians prepare to jet into Belém, Brazil, for the 30th annual UN climate meeting ....

October 10, 2025

Despite a global transition towards more renewable sources of energy, coal remains important in the global energy landscape, with global coal demand having reached about 8.8-billion tons in 2024

October 7, 2025

Indian state electricity distributors are signing long-term contracts with coal-fired power generators to meet a projected surge in evening demand, despite the country's efforts to expand clean energy capacity.

October 1, 2025

Coal and renewables can coexist to support a stable power supply through the use of modern technologies.

This is useful fossil fuel is moving with the times by adopting modern technologies. And let us not forget the importance of baseload power.

September 29, 2025

German power utility RWE said it has pulled out of Namibia’s $10 billion Hyphen green ammonia venture, dealing a setback to the southern African nation’s ambitions to become a leading hydrogen hub.

September 29, 2025

The stunning scale of Australia’s renewables rollout can be ­revealed: 1000 projects costing $1.33 trillion, including 25,000 more wind towers with 45,000km of associated roads, and 250 million solar panels on 406,000ha.

September 28, 2025

Coal's importance to baseload power generation and advances in technology that have helped reduced the fuel's carbon footprint were being understated by its opponents, said Vuslat Menar, MD of Menar, a South Afrcan coal producer. Bayoglu said it had been falsely....

September 27, 2025

Let all the qualifying comments flow...oh it's only half that because fossils lose it to wasted heat. But solar grew a 1000% in this country. But we installed 100x more new wind and solar generation. But the forecast says this is all going to be different next year or next decade.

September 26, 2025

"Majority of Americans want a big power grid and more cheap, clean energy." The media is clearly misleading Americans into believing that wind and solar power are clean and cheap, They are neither. There are environmental....

September 24, 2025

The Department of Transportation recently scuttled $679 million in federal funding for coastal port projects intended to support the heavily subsidized offshore wind industry. The money will instead be used for much-needed traditional infrastructure and shipbuilding.

September 24, 2025

This past August at the Coal Innovation & Market Strategies Conference in Park City, Utah, we hoested one of the powerful sessions of the year. Now we are putting you in the front row. Stream the full session on Youtube! From legacy and culture to politics, technology.....

September 19, 2025

Aligned to its view that will remain a key component of South Africa's energy mix for atleast the next two decades, coal mining company Seriti will continue to focuson investing in coal assets and improving operations at existing coal mines, said CEO Mike Teke on July 23, at the Coal and Energy Transition Day....

September 18, 2025

Countries' policy plans point to rising electricity generation from natural gas, renewables and nuclear to meet rapid growth in consumption, with oil's role in the power sector set to shrink.

August 4, 2025

The global energy transition is no longer a distant conversation — it’s the battleground of our decade. On August 4th at 3PM CET, two of the most outspoken and influential voices in the energy world face off in a live debate you won’t want to miss.

July 26, 2025

Maybe that is a weird question, but that’s the moral dilemma of policy makers at the International Energy Agency (IEA). The IEA forecasts the world’s energy demand, often through 2050 or beyond. They also predict our need for oil in a recent report: , where they (again) predict peak oil by 2030. Often, these predictions are tainted by “wishful thinking”

July 24, 2025

Global coal demand is likely to remain broadly unchanged this year and next, despite short-term fluctuations across several major markets in the first half of this year, the International Energy Agency’s (IEA’s) latest update on the sector, released on July 24, shows.

July 23, 2025

THE turnaround in coal exports during 2024 through the Richards Bay Coal Terminal (RBCT) that was reported in January has continued into 2025 with the terminal meeting forecast higher export levels at the half-way stage. The RBCT exported 52.1Mt last year..

July 22, 2025

Ed Miliband has admitted that Sizewell C will cost at least £38bn to build as he gave final approval for the construction of the nuclear power station. The Energy Secretary took the final investment decision on the controversial power station on Tuesday.

July 21, 2025

When a Chinese solar panel is installed in a California desert, it arrives with a massive carbon debt. Simple narratives are employed to seduce a populance, and none is more seductive today than the promise of "carbon-free" energy. In California, a state often touted as a green pioneer, Gov. Gavin Newssom celebrated an "archievement" whose announcement was free of nuance and deficient of truth

July 15, 2025

The failure of a multi-billion-dollar green hydrogen plant is a fabulous opportunity to reflect on one of the most lavishly funded scams ever inflicted on the Australian people.

July 11, 2025

Wind and solar energy, along with the batteries and transmission lines they require to function even minimally, are inherently bad for the environment. But sometimes they are even worse, as when turbine blades fail. This sad story from the Nantucket Current is one we have seen repeatedly around the country:

July 11, 2025

Dan Ma: President Donald Trump signed an executive order on July 7th, directing his administration to end federal subsidies for solar and wind energy facilities, citing their unreliability and dependence on foreign controlled supply chains.

July 9, 2025

President Donald Trump’s attack on US climate policy continued in earnest with his signature into law of the so called ‘One Big Beautiful Bill’ on 4 July 2025. Among hundreds of tax and spending provisions, the Bill is to phase-out a significant tranche of clean energy tax credits.

July 8, 2025

Global banks channelled more than $385-billion to the coal power industry over the past three years, with annual flows increasing last year from 2023, according to analysis by a group of nonprofits.

July 7, 2025

For too long, the Federal Government has forced American taxpayers to subsidize expensive and unreliable energy sources like wind and solar. The proliferation of these projects displaces affordable...

July 6, 2025

British solar farms have been paid to switch off for the first time as sunny days prompt a surge of clean power that could overwhelm the grid. The National Energy System Operator (Neso), which manages the UK’s power grids....

July 3, 2025

Just four months before The Declaration of Independence was adopted on July 4, 1776, Adam Smith published The Wealth of Nations. “If the American Founding Fathers articulated in The Declaration of Independence the political case for individual freedom.

July 2, 2025

As Congress works through the One Big Beautiful Bill this week, the best argument for repealing the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) energy subsidies is simple: it’s what voters want.

June 26, 2025

The Spanish government is in total denial about the recklessness of it's green-energy obsession. At 12.30pm on Minday 28 April, Spain and Portugal were plunged into blackouts. Modern life ground to a halt, thanks to one....

June 26, 2025

No sooner had the Prime Minister announced a roundtable on productivity when advice was being proffered on how further to reduce it. Electrical Trades Union national secretary, Michael Wright, urged the productivity roundtable to address delays in.....

May 3, 2025

Secretary Wright is absolutely right. America must stop closing its coal plants because they generate some of the most affordable and reliable electricity in the country, especially compared to wind, solar, and battery storage.

May 2, 2025

The Editorial Board of the WSJ writes, Germany has invested so many hundreds of billions of euros in its green energy transition over the years that no one can tally the precise amount.

April 10, 2025

The climate scam is imploding right now. Of course there are still plenty of remaining pockets of climate cultism, but the whole movement is crumbling. It’s the most massive scientific fraud in human history, and it will take significant time to completely die, but make no mistake: It IS dying.

March 29, 2025

A North Dakota jury has awarded pipeline company Energy Transfer over $660 million, more than twice as much as the company was asking for, in damages from Greenpeace for its role in protests that delayed construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline nearly a decade ago.

March 29, 2025

In this powerful second episode, ACC CEO Emily Arthun sits down with Randall Atkins — a leading voice in the evolution of the coal industry and Chairman & CEO of Ramaco Resources.

March 27, 2025

It’s WINNING in America again, y’all, brought to you by President Donald Trump and his stellar cast of senior appointees who are rapidly wiping the Obama/Biden climate alarm agenda off the record books.

March 4, 2025

Energy is not just another commodity. It’s absolutely fundamental to our modern civilisation. Everything we do—from feeding ourselves to staying warm to manufacturing medicines—requires energy input. And not all energy sources are created equal.

February 17, 2025

President Donald Trump aims to restore energy independence by rolling back regulations and cutting inflationary spending on green energy.

February 12, 2025

Offshore wind energy is facing increasing costs and economic uncertainty, exacerbated by President Trump’s recent executive order halting offshore wind leasing.

September 25, 2024

India’s coal production has been accelerating since the COVID-19 pandemic, with annual increases of 51.9 million tons in 2021, 98.7 million tons in 2022, and 100.1 million tons in 2023, bringing total production to 1,010.9 million tons.

June 27, 2024

Twenty years ago, Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus “dropped” (in Ted’s words) an essay at the annual meeting of the Environmental Grantmakers Association titled, The Death of Environmentalism (DoE). The DoE prompted a vigorous debate about environmentalism in the United States that continues today. Here is how the New York Times characterized the reaction to the essay in 2005: The […]

June 27, 2024

By Reuters April 6, 20112:20 PM GMT Summary March exports rise m/m but fall slightly vs March last year SA targets 65Mt in 2011; industry says unlikely JOHANNESBURG, April 6 (Reuters) – South Africa’s coal exports rose to 5.36Mt in March from 4.57Mt the previous month, RBCT data showed on Wednesday. The figure compares with 5.66Mt […]

June 13, 2024

A coalition of civil society organisations from Indonesia, Senegal, South Africa and Vietnam on June 10 launched their ‘Principles for a Fair Just Energy Transition Partnership (JETP)’, which emphasises the integral need for accountability, transparency and equity in climate finance. International renewable energy advocacy organisation 350.org said the guiding principles were identified with the input of Global South communities. “Finance […]

June 13, 2024

June 13, 2024

Tuesday, June 11, 2024 A truck driver has been arrested on allegations of stealing coal at the Arnot Power Station in Mpumalanga. This after a coal loaded truck was spotted by the Eskom Group Security Investigation’s tactical team entering a coal yard in Middelburg. The coal was due to be delivered to the power station. […]

June 5, 2024

Another five years with Narendra Modi at the helm will see India’s coal demand surge, but how much of that will translate to imports is unclear as the prime minister pushes for greater self-reliance. After more than a month of voting, Indians eagerly await the outcome of the world’s biggest election, expected to be announced […]

June 5, 2024

Coal and natural gas plants provide 60% of the US’ affordable, reliable, and baseload power. In a time of increased electricity demand, America needs to double down on harnessing these sources—not abandon them.   The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)’s recently finalized Clean Power Plan 2.0 (CPP) rule, however, takes the country in the wrong direction. Under this regulation, one that is […]

June 5, 2024

On May 16, the Biden administration announced it would not be issuing any new coal leases in the Powder River Basin, the beating heart of federal coal production. It was a decision that doubles down on the administration’s effort to leave the nation woefully unprepared for surging power demand. Riding on the coattails of the […]

May 6, 2024

May 6, 2024

State-owned Transnet Freight Rail (TFR) has embarked on a ramp-up of GF-class coal trains from 21 a week to 28 a week, supported by an injection of locomotives. This is part of Transnet’s recovery plan initiatives, and a commitment made to the City of uMhlathuze leadership and other stakeholders during the Stakeholder Collaboration on Truck Congestion Solutions meeting held in the Port of Richards Bay, […]

March 25, 2024

JOHANNESBURG, Feb 29 (Reuters) – Dan Marokane is about to tackle the hardest job in South Africa: getting the lights back on. As CEO of state power utility Eskom, he takes on an organisation hampered by alleged coal theft and sabotage, which faces financial and technical crises. He will be working with a government shareholder that has a […]

March 18, 2024

IOL covers a wide publisher network of South Africa’s most prominent newspapers including The Star, Pretoria News, Daily News, The Mercury, Cape Times, Cape Argus, Weekend Argus, Sunday Independent, Saturday Star, Independent on Saturday and Sunday Tribune.   In the fear of quoting the whole article before you have the chance to read it at […]

March 18, 2024

Prof Pielke recently updated his evaluation of global cyclone/hurricane activity (Cyclones = Pacific, Hurricanes = Atlantic) The update is worth the read “To date, the main drivers of rising losses have been economic growth and urbanisation. Climate change plays a relatively small role today,…”

March 18, 2024

In January, McKinsey issued a new study on the German “Energiewende” Zukunftspfad Stromversorgung and presented it in Berlin earlier this week at a local energy conference. The study is in German, but the summary is below.   McKinsey’s key outcome in Lars’ words…  “GERMANY: PLEASE INSTALL 150 GW LESS SOLAR/WIND AND 50GW MORE GAS AND […]

March 18, 2024

Swiss Re recently issued a rather alarming report on the changing climate, but when you read it carefully you notice, that the world-famous reinsurer acknowledges something very very important… that can also be verified in the last IPCC report.   Swiss Re first paragraph of entire report:   “To date, the main drivers of rising […]

March 18, 2024

Yes they do   Photovoltaic (PV) solar panels, being dark-coloured, absorb significant heat compared to reflective desert sand. Despite converting a portion of energy into electricity, a considerable amount still contributes to panel heating. As these panels accumulate in large numbers, they collectively elevate the temperature of the surrounding area. Solar farms, as they expand, […]

February 5, 2024

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January 29, 2024

Over the last 15 years, the amount of electricity generated in South Africa has declined by nearly 4,000 GWh due to the rapid deterioration of Eskom’s performance. Eskom has a proud history. For 85 years, the power utility provided South Africa with reliable, affordable electricity. Eskom even won the Power Company of the Year at […]

January 22, 2024

Authored by Rory McCarthy, Consulting Director, Power & Renewables at Wood Mackenzie Contributor Jan 20, 2024,05:15am EST What are the reasons for optimism for clean energy in 2024? In 2023. clean energy witnessed one of the toughest years in its short history. Supply chain issues, the energy crisis post Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the […]

December 4, 2023

Russian coal exports to China could reach 100-102Mt in 2023, roughly a 50% increase compared with the year-ago level, Pyotr Bobylev, department director of Russian Energy Ministry, said on November 20. Russia exported 76.5Mt of coal to China over January to September in 2023, already exceeding 67Mt by the end of 2022, he added. Besides, […]

December 4, 2023

LITTLETON, Colorado, Nov 30 (Reuters) – Over 60% of global electricity generated so far in 2023 was produced by fossil fuels, despite the ongoing aggressive roll-out of renewable energy sources in every major economy. Several key countries have sourced well over half of their electricity from fossil fuels this year, including the United States (59%), […]

December 4, 2023

Editor’s note: This story was originally published by Yale Environment 360. It appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. When the world convenes in the UAE for the next round of the endless climate slog, much attention will be paid to the pledges of individual nations to cut their emissions. This has been the basic scorecard […]

November 20, 2023

November 20, 2023

17th November 2023 By: Bloomberg Glencore is preparing to unleash a new coal supermajor on the New York market that would – based on recent performance – churn out bigger profits than the current top 10 US listed coal miners combined. The world’s No. 1 shipper of thermal coal on Tuesday unveiled the first step in the process, with a deal to […]

November 15, 2023

By Mandisa Nyathi The department of mineral resources and energy has hit back at critics who have spoken against its latest draft report on South Africa Renewable Energy Master Plan released in July. The renewable energy industry faces a serious setback after electricity minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa said that renewables cannot be a solution to the energy […]

November 14, 2023

Claiming that wind and solar are green is simply nuts. Delivering rubbish power and leaving mountains of toxic rubbish in their wake, solar panels and industrial wind turbines are the antithesis of ‘green’. Assuming that ‘green’ means friendly to environments, people and the communities that they live in? As Michael Shellenberger explains during this Chris […]

November 14, 2023

“To meet growing demand, all states need to run all power plants and at full capacity”: Union Power and New & Renewable Energy Minister R. K. Singh “All states should do coal blending”: Union Power and NRE Minister “Fast-track RDSS, use renewables to power agriculture”: Power and NRE Minister R. K. Singh exhorts states Posted […]

November 14, 2023

Ideological experiments come in all shapes and sizes, but Germany’s wind and solar craze is monumental – a monumental environmental, economic and social disaster, to put it mildly. Suffering routine power rationing, mass blackouts and Europe’s highest power prices is only just the pointy end of what Germany’s boffins called the ‘Energiewende’, which was touted […]

October 31, 2023

While Western elites obsess about carbon dioxide gas, the rest of the world is screaming out for affordable energy. Ignoring those perfectly rational pleas, a cabal of pontificating windbags are hellbent on preventing any real development in the poorest parts of the planet – Africa included. Their weapon of choice is forcing chaotically intermittent and […]

October 31, 2023

Elites argue that development institutions like the World Bank should spend a lot more money on climate policies.

October 27, 2023

If we look to the data, the world is better than it was, and is likely to get better still.

September 20, 2023

Europe is facing a backlash against climate action as the cost of transitioning away from fossil fuels becomes clear.

September 14, 2023

European thermal prices made a firm start to Thursday's session, with an October cargo trading via Braemar Atlantic.

September 14, 2023

This time last year, Chinese coal prices were soaring as power plants scrambled for supplies after an historic drought caused hydropower output to collapse.

August 31, 2023

Following the record-breaking year in 2022, the coal value chain continues to plan, build, and open new mines.