South Korea’s Pulse News reported that Posco Engineering & Construction Co. (Posco E&C) landed a $834.2 million deal to build a coal-fired power plant and related facilities in Bangladesh. Posco E&C said it is working with a consortium led by Japan’s Sumitomo Corp. that intends to build two coal-fired power plants with a capacity of 600 megawatts (MW) each, 280 kilometers southeast of Dacca. It is the single largest coal-fired power plant project in southwest Asia and is expected to take about seven years to complete the entire construction. In the project, Posco E&C is assigned for civil engineering of the plants and construction of material handling facilities.
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Top 10 Coal Producing States & Regions
Week Ending (10/28/23) (in Thousand Short Tons) | YTD '23 | YTD '22 | % Change |
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Wyoming | 195,377 | 203,513 | -4.0 |
West Virginia | 73,188 | 69,617 | 5.1 |
Illinois | 32,539 | 31,479 | 3.4 |
Pennsylvania | 32,263 | 30,848 | 4.6 |
Kentucky | 24,553 | 23,630 | 3.9 |
Montana | 23,479 | 23,809 | -1.4 |
Indiana | 21,756 | 19,298 | 12.7 |
North Dakota | 20,772 | 22,585 | -8.0 |
Texas | 11,942 | 14,053 | -15.0 |
Colorado | 9,848 | 10,778 | -8.6 |
Appalachian Total | 140,463 | 133,569 | 5.2 |
Interior Total | 82,595 | 81,680 | 1.1 |
Western Total | 264,108 | 279,746 | -5.6 |
U.S. Total | 487,166 | 494,995 | -1.6 |