Platts Coal Analytics Service
Benefits
- Understand coal market fundamentals, a major influence in gas, power and emissions markets
- Access a unique lens into global macroeconomic trends through coal demand and usage
- Uncover the story behind the numbers driving coal prices
- Gain insights into changing coal production and regional trade trends
- Know key industry elements for evaluating coal commodity and equity investments
Features
- Up-to-date appraisal of international thermal coal markets, focusing on the heavily traded markets in the Atlantic and Pacific basins.
- Analysis and data on a wide range of issues affecting supply, demand, balances, and ultimately, prices of coal in various U.S. regions.
- Analysis of the interplay of factors affecting the coal markets such as production, emissions markets, weather, transportation, natural gas competition, and the economy.
- Regional coal production and net exports (by region)
- U.S. coal production and net exports
- Regional coal demand for electric power and other sectors
- Power sector coal inventory levels and prices
- Stocks by rank (bituminous, sub-bituminous and lignite)
- Coal price forecasts for CAPP Barge and Rail products, the Illinois Basin, NAPP and the Southern Powder River Basin
- U.S. physical prices and OTC prices