2002 Coal Industry Forecast Now Available

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Industrialinfo.com (Industrial Information Resources, Incorporated; Houston, Texas) announces the availability of its 2002 Coal Industry Forecast. Get in touch with the coal industry, with this useful web-based interactive forecast, which is chock full of informative maps, charts, and graphs.

Industrialinfo.com's 2002 Coal Industry Forecast focuses on the capital spending and business trends affecting the industry today and predicts coal-fired generation and coal mining industry consumption, and production requirements to the year 2020.

The forecast is split into two main sections. The coal-fired generation section focuses on power companies that use coal as a fuel, their plants, and trends occurring in those plants. The second section is coal mining, which deals with coal mining companies, mines, transportation issues, and trends in the coal mining arena.

Each section includes an overview of the industry followed by historical, current, and future analysis of the industry. Subsections cover environmental, business, regulatory, and technological trends that are affecting the industry today.

Also included are listings of the top coal-fired generation and coal mining companies, listed by generation capacity and production.