European "coal" troubles, Asian coal kings have no trouble

Author:Straight news Time:2022.09.26

As the European energy crisis intensifies, European countries are scrambling to find a supply plan for Russian coal and natural gas. The International Energy Agency predicts that the total global coal sales will reach 8 billion tons in 2022, and the historical highs reached in 2013.

The largest coal production country in Europe also lacks coal Polish people to stay up late to buy coal

As the EU's largest coal -producing country, 70%of Poland's electricity comes from coal power, and about 3.8 million families relied on coal heating. Potanka in eastern Poland, because of concerns about lack of fuel in winter, people have to stay up late to buy coal.

Many Polish residents said that they can't even find a place that can buy coal now. Some people have even tried to buy coal for three months, and they still can't buy it.

Those who do not reserve coal can only rely on burning branches to warm up their families.

In order to meet the needs of more families as much as possible, a coal mines have been implemented two -class system a few weeks ago, and they continue to work on weekends.

Natural gas heating is too expensive, German people hoard coal to overwinter

Recently, the business of Engelk, a coal supplier in Berlin, Germany, is very popular, and the order has been ranked next month. In the past years, the elderly who bought coal in the old community and could only be heated in the old community and could only be heated by coal -fired, but this year, a large number of new customers who purchased coal poured in.

Frehov Engelke, a coal supplier in Berlin, Germany, said, "A large number of new customers who buy solid fuels have come to this situation unprecedented. We did not know these customers before, and now they swarm, they all want to buy coal. "

As the German government announced the "natural gas surcharge" from October this year, according to this standard, the energy expenditure of a four -mouth home will increase by nearly 500 euros (about 3450 yuan). Obviously it is a more money -saving choice.

European "President Coal" with fire global coal trading Asian coal king is among the top three in the global rich list

Since the beginning of this year, the import of coal in the European Union has increased sharply. In the first half of the year, the total amount of coal imports in the European Union was 57.6 million tons, an increase of 49.6%year -on -year. In July, the import volume of global sea sports power coal reached 97.8 million tons, which was the highest level since the record, a year -on -year increase of more than 9%.

In the past year, the price of international coal has soared repeatedly, from less than 50 US dollars per ton to more than $ 400. The performance of global coal companies turned over, and from a large loss a few years ago, it turned into daily gold.

The coal business of the commodity giant Jianeng has soared 9 times in the first half of the year. The profit of China's coal industry in the first half of the year will exceed the overall profit of the photovoltaic industry.

The rise in coal prices has even rewritten the list of richest people.

Since the outbreak of the Russian -Ukraine conflict, Indian coal king Adoni has doubled in value, and personal net assets exceeded US $ 130 billion, second only to Musk and Bezos. This is the first time that Asians have ranked among the top three global rich lists.