Browsing by Author "Loomis, Ian M."

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    North American Cross-Border Electricity Trade
    Loomis, Ian M. (Virginia Tech. Virginia Center for Coal and Energy Research., 1998-03)
    The extensive trade of goods and services between the United States and Canada includes electricity. In general, this trade involves the shipment of power in both directions across the national border. In recent years the United States has been the net importer. In 1994 the United States imported a net 43.7 billion kilowatthours from Canada. This represented about 9.6% of the total consumption in Canada, but only about 1% of the total generation in the U.S. About 55% of the electricity imported from Canada was consumed in New York and the New England states. The 24.0 billion kilowatthours imported to New York and New England represented around 10% of the total demand in those regions. This is a significantly greater portion of the demand than could have been met by the nearly 1 million tons of Virginia sourced steam coal burnt in power plants in the northeastern portion of the United States. As coal mining in the Commonwealth of Virginia begins a downturn, from peak production in 1990 of 46.5 million tons, the import of electrical power from Canada appears to have little impact on the production of steam coal in Virginia. The longer term future of coal mining in Virginia appears to be in the extraction of thin seams, more suitable for the metallurgical than the steam market. The higher mining costs, in the thinner seams, is offset by the higher sales prices on the metallurgical market.
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    Virginia Coal, 1997
    McPherson, Malcolm; Loomis, Ian M.; Prelaz, Louis J.; Radcliffe, Margaret; Zipper, Carl E.; Holman, Darren (Virginia Tech, 1997-07)
    A complete annual directory and data reference source for all mines licensed in the Commonwealth. Mine listings for each operation include company and mine name, location and contact person, coal owner, seam worked, employees, production, productivity and mining equipment used. Other information contained in Virginia Coal includes state production data, county coal summaries, coal analyses, natural-gas production data, rail information and Hampton Roads coal-export information and service directories. It is the most complete catalog of its kind available anywhere in the state.
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    Virginia Coal, 1998
    McPherson, Malcolm; Loomis, Ian M.; Prelaz, Louis J.; Radcliffe, Margaret; Zipper, Carl E. (Virginia Tech, 1998-07)
    The Virginia Center for Coal and Energy Research is pleased to produce the 1998 edition of its annual Directory, Virginia Coal. This is one of the prime sources of statistics on Virginia coal production, mining methods and sales. Over the years, our Directories have tracked the performance and production of fuel source companies in Virginia. Despite the increasing accessibility of our data banks through our developing web site,¹ the hardcopy form of the Directory remains in demand. The statistics reported in Virginia Coal are derived from a number of sources including, and particularly, the State Division of Mines, Minerals and Energy.