At Eastern Fuel Buyers: Eastern fuel buyers say they'll be buying less eastern fuel

摘要

If more evidence was required to drive home the notion that Central Appalachian coal displacement by products from the Illinois Basin and other regions is imminent, it was provided in very straightforward fashion by people who would know at the Eastern Fuel Buyers Conference in Orlando. A utility panel discussion that included representatives from Southern Company, TVA and others made it crystal clear, according to a source, that large CAPP coal consumption numbers are a fading memory, one being replaced by thoughts of more economical burns of primarily Illinois Basin coal at many plants in the East.