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Coal

As coal makes a resurgence as a fuel for electric generation, coal providers enter the market as IPP generators as well as fuel suppliers. These companies are profiled here.

Associations and Info Sources

• American Coal Council, ACC
• American Coal Foundation
• American Electric Power
  • Central Coal Laboratory Services
• Babcock & Wilcox
  • To Conduct Testing of Mercury Removal Technology at Coal-Fired Power Plants
• Bituminous Coal Users' Group
• California, State of
  • California Energy Commission
    • Policy Recommendations for the Reduction of Mercury Emissions
• Coal Association of Canada
• Coal Conversion Counties Assoc (of North Dakota)
• Coal Information Network
• Coal Mining Engineers Webpage - utilities
• Coalition for Affordable and Reliable Energy
  • Mercury
• Commercial Testing and Engineering Co.- SGS Mineral Services
  • Mercury in Coal
• Embassy.org
  • Mexico
    • Energy
  • Canada
    • Energy
• Environmental News Network - Reducing mercury pollutants from coal burning plants
• Environmental Working Group
  • Estimated mercury emissions from coal burning power plants
• FuelTech
• Gasification Technologies Council
  • Evaluation of Innovative Fossil Cycles Incorporating CO2 Removal
• IEA Coal Research
  • Mercury - emissions and control
• Illinois, State of
  • Illinois State U - Geological Survey
    • Coal Section
• Illinois Clean Coal Institute
  • Demonstration of Sorbent Injection Process for Illinois Coal Mercury Control
  • Role of Coal Chlorine and Fly Ash on Mercury Species in Coal Combustion Flue Gas
• Kentucky, State of
  • University of Kentucky
    • Center for Applied Energy Research
      • CAER2002 Report Database
      • Market Mechanisms for Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reduction
      • The Science of Kyoto
      • Trace Elements in Coal
      • USGS National Coal Resource Assessment
• Kentucky Coal Association
• Learn about coal
• Lignite Energy Council
• McDermott Technology Inc
  • Trace Element Emissions
    • Coal Trace Element Analysis
• McGraw-Hill / Platts / FT Energy USA - Coal Outlook
• National Academies
  • Engineering
  • Science
    • Committee on Earth Resources
• National Coal Council
  • Increasing Electricity Availability From Coal-Fired Generation in the Near-Term, May 2001
• National Research Center for Coal & Energy
• Penn Virginia Resource Partners LP
  • Operations Area Map
• Pocahontas Coal Association
• Powder River Basin Coal Users' Group
• Underground Coal Gasification Engineering Ltd
• University of Kentucky - Center for Applied Energy Research
• US Federal Government
  • USDOE
    • Market-Based Advanced Coal Power Systems
  • USDOE-EIA - Coal
  • USDOE - Fossil Energy
    • Coal Power Initiative
    • DOE Selects 7 Research Proposals to Help Develop Advanced Environmental Control Systems for Power Plants
  • USDOE - Los Alamos National Laboratory
    • Central Region Energy Resources Team
    • Clean Coal Technology Compendium
    • Geologic Assessment of Coal in the Colorado Plateau: Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah
    • Review of Potential Efficiency Improvements at Coal-Fired Power Plants
    • SFA Pacific Inc - CO2 Mitigation Economics For Existing Coal-Fired Power Plants
  • USDOI - Office of Surface Mining
  • USEPA
    • A Low-Cost, High-Temperature Mercury Sorbent for Coal-Fired Power Plants
    • Electric Utility Steam Generating Units Section 112 Rule Making
    • Mercury, Health Issues, Fish Advisories in NE
    • Proposes Regulations to Cut Mercury Emissions From Coal-Fired Power Plants
    • Steam Generating Unit Mercury Emissions
  • USGS 
    • Coal Resource Assessments in the Northern and Central Appalachian Coal Region
    • Fact Sheets
    • Forces Shaping Future US Coal Production and Use
    • Mercury in US Coal
    • Mercury in U.S. Coal -- Abundance, Distribution, and Modes of Occurrence
    • Mercury Research in the USGS
    • National Coal Resource Assessment, NCRA
    • National Coal Resource Assessment, NCRA
    • National Coal Resource Assessment Non-Proprietary Data: Location, Stratigraphy, and Coal Quality for Selected Tertiary Coal in the Northern Rocky Mountains and Great Plains Region
    • Utah
• Virginia Center for Coal and Energy Research, VCCER
• Virginia Coal Council
• West Virginia Coal Association
• Western Coal Council
• Western Region Ash Group, WRASHG
  • Coal Fired Plants in the Western USA
  • Arizona Coal Fired Plants
  • Arkansas Coal Fired Plants
  • California Coal Fired Plants
  • Colorado Coal Fired Plants
  • Iowa Coal Fired Plants
  • Kansas Coal Fired Plants
  • Louisiana Coal Fired Plants
  • Minnesota Coal Fired Plants
  • Missouri Coal Fired Plants
  • Montana Coal Fired Plants
  • Nebraska Coal Fired Plants
  • Nevada Coal Fired Plants
  • New Mexico Coal Fired Plants
  • North Dakota Coal Fired Plants
  • Oklahoma Coal Fired Plants
  • Oregon Coal Fired Plants
  • South Dakota Coal Fired Plants
  • Texas Coal Fired Plants
  • Utah Coal Fired Plants
  • Washington Coal Fired Plants
  • Wyoming Coal Fired Plants
• Western Coal Council
  • Powder River Basin Fact Sheet
  • PRB Coal Supply & Demand Study-Hill & Associates
  • Wyoming Powder River Basin Coal Producers
• World Coal Institute
  • Coal Markets - Links to pricing organizations

EDUCATION

• Kentucky Coal Council
  • Coal

Glossary

• Coal Terms

SUPPLIERS

• Alliance Resource Partners LP
• Arch Coal
• International Coal Group, ICG
  • Yahoo!Finance-ICG
• James River Coal Co
  • Bell County Coal Co
  • Bledsoe Coal Corp
• Knife River Corporation
• Massey Energy Co (Richmond VA) (4th largest supplier)
  • Yahoo!Finance- MEE
• North American Coal Corporation
• Peabody Energy
• Penn Virginia Corp (crude oil & natural gas)
  • Penn Virginia Resource Partners LP (coal & timber)
• Progress Energy - Progress Fuels
• Westmoreland Coal Company