Can a President Trump deliver on his promise to revitalize the US coal industry?
*Please note that this report only includes an Excel data file if this is indicated in "What's included" below
Report summary
Table of contents
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A trifecta of technical factors will hinder Trump’s coal industry recovery goals
- Coal mine productivity is improving
- Alternatives to coal are cost-competitive
- It takes less energy to make a unit of power and technology helps us use less energy
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What might a President Trump do to assist the US coal industry?
- Revisiting and altering the 'endangerment finding'
- Ending all administration work on non-final environmental rules affecting coal
- Rolling back other existing coal-impacting EPA regulations
- Phasing out subsidies for renewable energy
- Refusing to ratify the COP21 agreement
- Ending the moratorium on federal coal leasing
- Reducing federal severance, royalties and tax rates
- Transferring environmental policy dominance back to the states
- Ending the government review of self-bonding practices
- Political realities may also limit a President Trump's ability to help the coal industry
Tables and charts
This report includes 6 images and tables including:
- US coal production and nat gas price (Mst, $/mmBtu)
- US coal employment, productivity and coal intensity (000s, stpd, ktoe/US $ Bn)
- Levelized cost of electricity: solar PV w/o investment tax credit and coal without carbon cost ($/MWh)
- Levelized cost of electricity for wind w/o production tax credit and coal without carbon cost($/MWh)
- Levelized cost of electricity: solar PV w/ investment tax credit and coal w/ carbon cost ($/MWh)
- Levelized cost of electricity for wind w/ production tax credit and coal w/ carbon cost($/MWh)
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