Last mine standing: how much overcapacity is there in the Powder River Basin?
What's inside this report?
The shift to cleaner power has led to a sharp decline in coal consumption for power generation.
As coal demand declines, how will this affect one of the main areas of coal supply in the US: the Powder River Basin?
Read our report for:
- Our outlook for Powder River Basin prices, mining capacity, and its competitive landscape
- Bankruptcy analyses for the basin
- Regional supply-demand fundamentals, and an assessment of who stands to lose the most from the basin’s long-term structural decline
- Location maps and production estimates for 2019
Report summary
Table of contents
- Recent events
- PRB supply, demand and price
- Mining capacity in the PRB
- Bankruptcies of Blackjewel and Cloud Peak
Tables and charts
This report includes the following images and tables:
- Powder River Basin production by company (Mst)
- Deliveries to EGUs by heat content (Mst and US$/st)
- PRB supply curve with US$20/st transportation costs by heat content (US$/mmbtu)
- Operating EGU capacity that burns any amount of PRB coal (GW)
- PRB apparent capacity vs. EIA annualised weekly shipments (Mstpa)
- PRB production by heat content (Mst)
- PRB delivered to coal-fired EGU (Mst)
What's included
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