Less Pollution, Lower Bills: Kansas, Missouri Move Ahead on Utility Securitization
Less Pollution, Lower Bills: Kansas, Missouri Move Ahead on Utility Securitization
Legislation would help utility providers, like Evergy and Ameren, retire coal-fired power plants faster Share this story Published 3 hours ago Above image credit: A wind turbine towers above Queen City, Missouri. Ameren, the electrical provider for much of eastern Missouri, acquired the wind farm in late 2020. (Allison Kite | Kansas Reflector)
KANSAS CITY, Missouri Utility providers across Kansas and Missouri may soon be able to retire coal-fired power plants faster as the energy sector accelerates its transition to renewable energy sources.
CIL offtake takes hit due to pandemic
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Last Updated: May 04, 2021, 03:03 PM IST
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“Offtake could have been even higher, but the pandemic spread afflicted over 5,400 company’s employees and their families. Most of them are involved in the frontline output and offtake operations,” a Coal India’s executive said.
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CIL produced around 42 MTs of coal in April’21 and Over Burden Removal at 116 Million Cubic Metres achieved 94% of the month’s target.
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Coal India’s (CIL) coal offtake rose to 54.1 Million Tonnes (MTs) in April, when the pandemic spread afflicted over 5,400 company’s employees and their wards across subsidiaries including contractual workers.
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SYDNEY, May 4 (Reuters) - Australia’s Port of Newcastle has signed a A$515 million ($398 million) loan with National Australia Bank (NAB) that links interest payments to non-mandatory social and environmental targets, the companies said.
The world’s largest coal port will pay less if certain targets are met, including reducing its direct and indirect greenhouse gas emissions and screening all customers for modern slavery risks, they said in a joint statement.
The loan also contains metrics focused on mental health first aid, diversity and inclusion, they said.
The interest rate and potential discounts on it were not disclosed.
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HANOI, May 4 (Reuters) - London aluminium prices rose on Tuesday, as top producer China’s commitment to curb carbon emissions sparked worries that supply of the energy-intensive metal will be limited.
Three-month copper on the London Metal Exchange rose 1.5% to $2,432.50 a tonne by 0253 GMT, copper advanced 0.9% to $9,909.50 a tonne, zinc was up 0.4% to $2,936.50 a tonne, while nickel fell 0.2% to $17,635 a tonne.
“We expect aluminium to remain supported in the short term amid concerns climate change policies in China will curb output,” said ANZ analysts in a note.
“Coal-fired power is used by more than 80% of China’s aluminium smelters. Pollution-reduction policies are likely to push many of them to hook up to the grid, thereby increasing their costs,” they added.