According to the International Energy Agency (IEA)’s World Energy Outlook for 2004 the long-term future for coal demand is assured.
World energy demand will expand by almost 60 per cent between now and 2030, says the report, to 16.5 bn/t of oil equivalent. Oil will fill some of the demand but gas - which will almost double in size as a global feedstock - will adopt a substantially larger role. That leaves plenty of potential for coal, usage of which will increase by 1.5 per cent per annum. By 2030 coal-burn will be 50 per cent higher than it is today....
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