{"id":6859,"date":"2018-12-18T08:37:42","date_gmt":"2018-12-18T08:37:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/assocarboni.it\/assocarboni\/?page_id=5343"},"modified":"2021-05-19T08:08:34","modified_gmt":"2021-05-19T08:08:34","slug":"il-coal","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/assocarboni.it\/assocarboni\/en\/il-coal\/","title":{"rendered":"Coal"},"content":{"rendered":"
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2020 data to be processed<\/h3><\/div><\/div>
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2020 data to be processed<\/h3><\/div><\/div>
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Energy prices for industries (source: AEEG)<\/h3><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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COAL<\/strong><\/p>\n

Coal confirmed its global leadership<\/strong> as leading fuel for electricity generation also in 2020, accounting for 38% of overall production: in particular, demand for coal is shifting towards South-East Asia, where emerging economies are in need of a safe and competitive energy source that they have found in coal, as the fuel of choice for economic and industrial development.<\/p>\n

S<\/strong>eaborne <\/strong>world coal<\/strong> trade <\/strong>closed 2020 in negative, with a reduction of -10% on an annual basis (1,157 million tons, compared to 1,292 million in 2019). For the first time after 10 years of continuous growth seaborne coal trade suffers a setback and interrupts a trend that in the last 10 years had led to a 50% increase in volumes.<\/p>\n

While Europe<\/strong> in 2020 generates electricity mainly from coal (13.3%) and nuclear (24.2%), cutting the costs of electricity bills by an average 30%, Italy is lagging behind being the only Country in the world without nuclear power and with the lowest share of coal use (8%). (Immagine 1)<\/p>\n

The Italian electricity production mix is \u200b\u200bthe least diversified: compared to the G8 countries, which have, on average, a share of around 38% generated by a variable mix of coal and nuclear, in 2020 in Italy the electricity production comes for approximately the 80% from renewable sources and natural gas.<\/p>\n

In 2020, Italy<\/strong> reported a decrease in thermal coal imports, with a volume of 5.3 million tons (-29% compared to 7.5 million tons in 2019) and in imports of metallurgical coal and PCI, which reached a volume of 2.35 million tons, with a decrease of 22% compared to 3 million in 2019. (Immagine 2)<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, the consequences of these disparities on industrial users are well known: according to the Italian Regulatory Authority for Energy, Networks and Environment (ARERA), Italian companies are constantly forced to face electricity prices of 30% above the European average<\/strong>, with negative effect on the competitiveness in particular in the energy-intensive sectors, characterized by high energy consumption. (Immagine 3)<\/p>\n

The planned Italian electricity mix post 2025, with the exit of coal from electricity generation, in a country already without nuclear power, in the immediate future could undermine the competitiveness of our companies<\/strong> on the global market, in favor of emerging countries that have fewer environmental constraints to respect, with inevitable repercussions on GDP.<\/p>\n

Our Country is also affected by infrastructural gaps with regards to the regasification plants<\/strong>: there are currently three terminals, one of which is onshore in Panigaglia and two offshore located off the coast of Rovigo and Livorno, for a total capacity of 15,2 bcma. Italy doesn\u2019t seem to be currently able to support a strategy of sources\u2019 diversification as well as to face a potential energy emergency not provided with appropriate plants: this is the only European exception, in a panorama characterized by countries where the regasification covers an average of 50% of the national consumption. (Immagine 4)<\/p>\n

Furthermore, natural gas reserves are located in a few countries, politically unstable, such as Algeria and Russia. World reserves of coal are geographically distributed in more than 100 countries<\/strong> and its reserves are placed in very different areas also from the point of view of national political stability. Several studies show that security of supply from coal reserves is 2 times better than from natural gas and 3,5 times better than from oil. Coal can guarantee supply for about 160 years. (Immagine 5)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Furthermore, natural gas reserves are located in a few countries, politically unstable, such as Algeria and Russia. World reserves of coal are geographically distributed in more than 100 countries<\/strong> and its reserves are placed in very different areas also from the point of view of national political stability. Several studies show that security of supply from coal reserves is 2 times better than from natural gas and 3.5 times better than from oil. Coal can guarantee supply for about 160<\/strong>.\u00a0(Image 5)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Current ratio between regasification capacity and natural gas consumption <\/h3><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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COAL Coal confirmed its global leadership as leading fuel for electricity generation also in 2020, accounting for 38% of overall production: in particular, demand for coal is shifting towards South-East Asia, where emerging economies are in need of a safe and competitive energy source that they have found in coal, as the fuel of choice […]\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/assocarboni.it\/assocarboni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6859"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/assocarboni.it\/assocarboni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/assocarboni.it\/assocarboni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/assocarboni.it\/assocarboni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/assocarboni.it\/assocarboni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6859"}],"version-history":[{"count":60,"href":"https:\/\/assocarboni.it\/assocarboni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7843,"href":"https:\/\/assocarboni.it\/assocarboni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6859\/revisions\/7843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/assocarboni.it\/assocarboni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}