Title :
Research and Prediction of Coal Price in China
Author :
Shuo Liu ; Wenjie Huang ; Guanghong Zhang
Author_Institution :
North China Electr. Power Univ., Beijing
Abstract :
Since the second half of 2007, the coal price in China has witnessed dramatic growth, the generation cost has gone up and power generation companies have got huge benefit losses. This essay analyzes the major reasons of coal price increase in China, predicts the future tendency of steam coal price and proposes policy suggestion to deal with rapid growth of coal price.
Keywords :
coal; power generation economics; pricing; China; coal price prediction; generation cost; power generation companies; Contracts; Costs; Fuels; Investments; Marketing and sales; Petroleum; Power generation; Power generation economics; Research and development management; Risk management; coal; energy; generation; price;
Conference_Titel :
Risk Management & Engineering Management, 2008. ICRMEM '08. International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Beijing
Print_ISBN :
978-0-7695-3402-2
DOI :
10.1109/ICRMEM.2008.19