BEIJING (Reuters) - Exceptionally cold weather sweeping through China has caused a huge increase in power demand in the world’s largest energy consumer and hampered transportation. Frigid weather across north Asia has caught utilities and liquefied natural gas importers off guard as demand...

China may open up its borders to seaborne coal and set price ceiling for Chinese coal in an attempt to cool domestic coal prices, according to a meeting note seen by S&P Global Platts Dec. 15 that took place between China's National Development and Reform Commission, or NDRC and eight...

Berdasarkan mandat Undang-Undang No.11 tahun 2020 tentang Cipta Kerja, batu bara resmi menjadi Barang Kena Pajak (BKP), di mana Pajak Pertambahan Nilai (PPN) batu bara dikenakan sebesar 10%. Sebagai salah satu pembeli batu bara domestik, PT PLN (Persero) menanggung PPN 10% tersebut. Lalu, dengan...

Chinese state-owned media appeared to confirm a ban on imports of Australian coal this week. Australian officials are now trying to figure out how serious the threat is, and its implications. If China stops taking Australia's coal, will other countries fill the gap? Could Japan, India and South...

Indonesia’s domestic coal consumption is estimated at 140-145 million tonnes this year, Dodik Ariyanto, an official at the energy ministry, told a virtual conference on Tuesday. This is lower than this year’s target of 155 million tonnes but above last year’s consumption of 138...

Adaro Indonesia Receives Gold Proper Award for the Third Time On Monday, 14 December 2020, the Minister of Environment and Forestry, Siti Nurbaya Bakar, witnessed virtually by the Vice President of the Republic of Indonesia, K.H. Ma'ruf Amin, presented the PROPER Gold 2020 award to the...

More than US$500 million (S$671.4 million) worth of Australian coal is on ships anchored off Chinese ports, as a diplomatic spat between the two countries cuts into trade, idles a portion of the world's dry bulk carriers and threatens to spiral into a humanitarian crisis. More than...

An analysis published by Wood Mackenzie forecasts that thermal coal imports will increase in December in China. According to the market analyst, seaborne thermal coal imports will grow from 9.5 Mt to 20 Mt in December. This new figure is much higher than the 8.8 Mt in September or the...

Australian rail firm Aurizon has maintained its 210mn-220mn t of coal haulage guidance for the 2020-21 fiscal year to 30 June despite a weak July-September, based on expectations that the current Chinese disruption to Australian coal imports will ease when a new quota is introduced. Aurizon...

Presiden Joko Widodo (Jokowi) menagih percepatan nilai tambah batubara. Hilirisasi ini dinilai perlu untuk mendongkrak pemanfaatan batubara di dalam negeri. Dengan begitu, Presiden Jokowi ingin agar ekspor batubara sebagai komoditas mentah bisa segera dihentikan. "Saya ingin agar dicarikan...