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| Last Update: June 10, 2010 | |||||||||
| Steam Coal Prices for Electricity Generation 1 | |||||||||
| U.S. Dollars per Metric Ton2 | |||||||||
| Country | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 |
| Australia | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA |
| Austria | 45.70 | 52.67 | 64.47 | 81.28 | 87.52 | 92.75 | 96.24 | 122.10 | 120.10 |
| Belgium | 37.72 | 34.48 | 35.94 | 72.46 | 80.35 | 63.24 | 75.54 | 130.54 | NA |
| Canada | 18.52 | 19.17 | 21.03 | 20.32 | 24.50 | 26.29 | NA | NA | NA |
| China | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA |
| Chinese Taipei (Taiwan) | 31.29 | 31.43 | 31.18 | 47.75 | 57.70 | 54.68 | 70.17 | 118.49 | NA |
| Czech Republic3 | 8.05 | 8.52 | C | C | C | C | C | C | C |
| Denmark | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA |
| Finland | 46.66 | 44.02 | 48.28 | 67.00 | 72.06 | 74.27 | 83.72 | 142.90 | NA |
| France | 45.28 | 42.89 | 42.45 | 63.55 | 74.90 | 72.90 | 83.90 | 136.10 | NA |
| Germany | 51.86 | 45.70 | 50.02 | 70.00 | 79.74 | 77.95 | 90.26 | 152.60 | NA |
| Hungary 3 | C | C | C | C | C | C | C | C | C |
| India | 17.11 | 16.61 | 17.74 | 19.54 | 21.34 | 20.77 | 22.92 | 24.25 | NA |
| Indonesia | NA | 23.60 | 26.91 | NA | 25.92 | 36.66 | NA | NA | NA |
| Ireland | 35.39 | 37.49 | 35.54 | 67.24 | 70.09 | 61.25 | 83.45 | 99.46 | NA |
| Italy | C | C | C | C | C | C | C | C | C |
| Japan | 42.69 | 39.59 | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA |
| Kazakhstan | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA |
| Korea, South | NA | NA | NA | 47.64 | 55.11 | 51.60 | 60.34 | 91.00 | NA |
| Luxembourg | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA |
| Mexico 3 | 33.94 | 33.70 | 32.11 | 37.14 | 40.97 | 42.35 | 45.92 | 52.41 | NA |
| Netherlands | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA |
| New Zealand | C | C | C | C | C | C | C | C | C |
| Norway | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA |
| Poland | 31.39 | 32.22 | 36.20 | 39.95 | 47.55 | 51.43 | 57.74 | 79.20 | NA |
| Portugal | 38.58 | 32.32 | 38.38 | 57.49 | 67.60 | 58.30 | 76.41 | 150.40 | NA |
| Romania | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA |
| Russia | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA |
| Singapore | - - | - - | - - | - - | - - | - - | - - | - - | - - |
| Slovak Republic (Slovakia) | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA |
| South Africa | 5.81 | 4.97 | 7.59 | 8.50 | 10.34 | NA | NA | NA | NA |
| Spain | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA |
| Sweden | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA |
| Switzerland | - - | - - | - - | - - | - - | - - | - - | - - | - - |
| Thailand | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA |
| Turkey 3 | 10.27 | 15.20 | 18.98 | 25.90 | 25.23 | 24.82 | 27.75 | 32.34 | NA |
| United Kingdom | 46.46 | 44.47 | 45.93 | 59.73 | 65.58 | 70.09 | 82.32 | NA | NA |
| United States | 28.18 | 28.68 | 29.05 | 30.92 | 35.30 | 38.76 | 40.63 | 46.99 | NA |
| 1 Energy end-use prices including taxes,
converted using exchange rates. 2 To convert U.S. dollars per metric ton to U.S. dollars per short ton divide by 1.1023. 3 Price is for brown coal. NA = Not Available. C = Confidential. - - = Not Applicable. Source: Energy Prices & Taxes - Quarterly Statistics, Fourth Quarter 2009, Part II, Section D, Table 19, and Part III, Section B, Table 16, Paris: International Energy Agency, 2008. The Paris-based International Energy Agency (IEA) maintains annual and quarterly time-series of this price data that begin with the year 1978 and that also include the most recent quarterly prices. Information on purchasing this data online from the IEA is available at: http://data.iea.org/ieastore/default.asp |
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