Global Coal Consumption Hits Record Even as Coal Power Declines
ADNOC Overhauls Crude Pricing Methodology Trump’s administration is reversing U.S.… Robert Rapier is a chemical engineer in the energy industry.
He has 25 years of international engineering experience in the chemical, oil and gas, and… Global coal consumption reached another record in 2025, seemingly contradicting years of discussion about phasing out the world’s most carbon-intensive fossil fuel.
But the headline number does not tell the whole story.
The latestStatistical Review of World Energyshows that global coal consumption rose to 166.0 exajoules last year.
That represented an increase of 0.7% from 2024.
At the same time, global electricity generation from coal declined.
Coal-fired power production fell 0.3% to 10,511 terawatt-hours.
Those two trends are not mutually exclusive.
Coal is used not only to generate electricity, but also in steelmaking, cement production, and other industrial processes.
The divergence also reflects a changing geographic picture in which coal is declining across much of the developed world while remaining deeply embedded in Asia’s industrial economy.
Coal consumption reached a record in absolute terms, but it did not keep pace with overall energy demand.
Total global energy supply increased from 592.2 exajoules in 2024 to 600.3 exajoules in 2025, an increase of about 1.4%.
| Product | Price | Change |
|---|---|---|
| Brent Crude | $102.14/bbl | +0.34% |
| WTI Crude | $96.90/bbl | +0.21% |
| EN590 Diesel | $846/MT | +0.18% |
| Jet Fuel A-1 | $1090/MT | +0.55% |
| Mazut M100 | $450/MT | -0.15% |
| Bitumen 60/70 | $470/MT | +0.08% |
| Sulphur Gran 99.5% | $470/MT | -0.44% |
| Urea 46% Gran | $650/MT | +1.12% |
| NPK 16-16-16 | $460/MT | -0.28% |
| Nat Gas TTF | $15.42/MMBtu | +0.92% |
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