... relationship between fossil fuel consumption (disaggregated into coal, oil and natural gas) and carbon emissions in India. Design/methodology/approach This study uses the nonlinear autoregressive distributed lag (NARDL) methodology, as proposed by Shin et al. (2014), to capture the asymmetric...

... used to estimate these drivers. Section 4 presents the model results, emphasizing the interplay between these factors. Section 5 presents the discussion of the key findings. Finally, Section 6 concludes with policy recommendations for India’s manufacturing sector. Energy price Aluminum Coal...

... of energy, which are, coal, crude oil and natural gas. Once developed, the index is used in conjunction with three major macroeconomic variables, namely, consumer price index (CPI), real gross domestic product (GDP) and energy demand, to analyse the relationship between energy price and India’s...

...Ramin Azargohar; Ajay Dalai; Ebrahim Hassanpour; Saeed Moshiri Purpose Lignite coal-fired power plants are the main electricity generators in the province of Saskatchewan, Canada. Although burning lignite coal to generate power is economical, it produces significant greenhouse gases making...

...Supratim Das Gupta; Alejandro Mosiño Purpose The authors formulate India’s energy targets in light of pushing for renewable energy sources and reducing the dependence on imported coal. Share of imported coal in electricity generation has been approximately 10 per cent in recent years. While...

...-criteria decision-making (MCDM) analyses, is used for this purpose to prioritize Indian energy sector projects, namely, coal, gas, hydro, solar and nuclear. Design/methodology/approach The GST-based MCDM approach of COPRAS is used. Five projects of energy sector are compared based on various grey...

...Sudhir Kumar Singh; Vijay Kumar Bajpai Purpose – The purpose of this study is to benchmark the performance of state-owned coal-fired power plants (CFPPs) and test whether plant-specific knowledge in terms of quality of coal, size, age and make of plant contribute to an improvement in plant...

...Raymond Li Purpose The objective of this paper is to analyse the evolution of international steam coal trade, the nature of coal trade contracts and the pricing mechanism in the two main coal trading regions – the Atlantic and the Asia‐Pacific, from the early 1980s to recent years. The historical...

...Ali Emrouznejad; William Ho; Han Tai Wu; Pierre‐Olivier Pineau; Gilles Caporossi Purpose The paper seeks to evaluate the changes in efficiency and productivity of coal‐fired electricity generation of 30 Chinese administrative regions from 1999 to 2007. Design/methodology/approach The paper...

...Jean‐Marie Martin‐Amouroux Purpose Coal, a fuel that once dominated the global energy scene, is staging a come‐back despite being environmentally dirty. The purpose of the paper is to analyse the return of King Coal to find out whether it is likely to be regain its dominance in the global energy...

...Piotr Zientara Purpose The purpose of this paper is to discuss and assess the consecutive Governments' policy for coal (1989‐2006) in the context of the systemic transformation of the Polish economy. Design/methodology/approach The paper presents a critical analysis of the rationale...

...Brian H. Bowen; Marty W. Irwin; F.T. Sparrow; Maria Mastalerz; Zuwei Yu; Robert A. Kramer Purpose Indiana is listed among the top ten coal states in the USA and annually mines about 35 million short tons (million tons) of coal from the vast reserves of the US Midwest Illinois Coal Basin...