The Complete Coal & Consumable Fuels Data Guide (2026)

US federal agencies anchor the core. The [EIA Annual Coal Report]( /datasets/coal-consumable-fuels/eia-annual-coal-report-acr ) ships about 46 XLSX/PDF tables per edition, with summary Table ES1 spanning 1949 to 2024; the [EIA Coal Data browser and API]( /datasets/coal-consumable-fuels/eia-coal-data-production-consumption-prices-reserves ) refreshes bulk files twice daily; and [SEDS]( /datasets/coal-consumable-fuels/eia-state-energy-data-system-seds ) publishes state estimates from 1960. [MSHA's Mine Data Retrieval System]( /datasets/coal-consumable-fuels/msha-mine-data-retrieval-system-mdrs ) exposes roughly 92,000 mine records plus accident, inspection and violation event tables from 2000.

US government and public-domain statistics

• [EIA Annual Coal Report (ACR)]( /datasets/coal-consumable-fuels/eia-annual-coal-report-acr ) (quality 9, free): about 46 table entries per edition (ES1–ES5 plus Tables 1–36 including sub-tables such as 13.1 and 29.1), each offered as XLSX and PDF, covering production, productive capacity, recoverable reserves, employment, productivity, prices and trade. Table ES1 reaches back to 1949; archived editions run 2002–2023. commercial delivery terms.

NGO asset- and company-level trackers

• [Global Coal Plant Tracker (GCPT)]( /datasets/coal-consumable-fuels/global-coal-plant-tracker-gcpt ) (quality 10, free): unit-level inventory of every coal-fired unit 30 MW and larger — 14,674 units across 111 countries with status, capacity, owners (3,000+), parent companies, coordinates and CO2 estimates. Released as GeoJSON (about 20 MB), Google Sheets, XLSX and CSV; the July 2026 release downloaded without registration.

• [Metallurgical Coal Exit List (MCEL)]( /datasets/coal-consumable-fuels/metallurgical-coal-exit-list-mcel ) (quality 7, free after registration): 145 mining companies developing more than 250 metallurgical coal expansion projects across 20 countries, under the same urgewald terms.

International statistical systems

• [Eurostat Coal Production and Consumption Statistics]( /datasets/coal-consumable-fuels/eurostat-coal-production-and-consumption-statistics ) (quality 9, free, commercial delivery terms 4.0): EU hard coal and brown coal production, inland consumption, import dependency (1990–2024), net imports by partner (2015–2024) and deliveries to power plants and coke ovens across 44 reporting geographies, 1990–2025. Excel bundle 587 kB; the full nrg_cb_sff TSV export is about 13 MB.

• [UN Energy Statistics Database (UNdata)]( /datasets/coal-consumable-fuels/un-energy-statistics-database-undata ) (quality 8, free): roughly 6,000 distinct series keys across about 200 areas, 75 commodities and 216 transaction codes, covering hard coal, anthracite, coking coal, lignite and coal products. SDMX access needs no registration or integration key, and data may be copied freely provided UNdata is cited.

• [World Bank Energy Data Portal (energydata.info)]( /datasets/coal-consumable-fuels/world-bank-energy-data-portal-energydata-info ) (quality 8, free): CKAN platform aggregating 1,191 energy datasets from 31 partner organizations across 193 countries, mostly commercial delivery terms 4.0, including quarterly IEA coal statistics and extractive-industry layers.

Price and market data

India gateway

• [Ministry of Coal - India Coal Statistics]( /datasets/coal-consumable-fuels/ministry-of-coal-india-coal-statistics ) (quality 7, free): the slice's only India source — monthly 21-page Statistics at a Glance PDFs (latest verified: June 2026 provisional), the National Coal Index, coal grades, overburden removal series and the National Coal Portal dashboard, all without registration.

Printing-sector overlap records

Three additional records sit in this slice through printing-sector overlap rather than coal coverage, and the catalog keeps them attached for completeness: [EPA Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) — Printing Sector]( /datasets/coal-consumable-fuels/epa-toxics-release-inventory-tri-printing-sector ) (quality 8; facility-level toxic-release records for reporting years 1987–2024, with 92 printing facilities filing for RY2023 out of roughly 325,000 national submissions), [Eurostat — PRODCOM manufacturing output (printing products)]( /datasets/coal-consumable-fuels/eurostat-prodcom-manufacturing-output-printing-products ) (quality 8; 35 printing-product codes in NACE division 18, 1995–2024, about 46 reporters) and [Eurostat — Structural Business Statistics for NACE C18]( /datasets/coal-consumable-fuels/eurostat-structural-business-statistics-for-nace-c18 ) (quality 9; enterprise counts, turnover, value added and employment for 41 geographies, a continuous 2005–2024 series).

The industry brief maps ten recurring jobs onto named sources. Together they cover the whole chain, from mine-level safety events to seaborne price benchmarks:

Four working profiles account for most coal and consumable fuels data searches, and each starts somewhere different:

See the data scientists page for how this profile works across industries.

Market researchers and strategists. Sizing work leans on official annuals: "eu lignite production by country" resolves to Eurostat's coal statistics across 44 geographies, while "us coal reserves by state" points to the Annual Coal Report's recoverable-reserve tables and SEDS state detail from 1960.

The market researchers page collects the equivalent baseline sources for other sectors.

Compliance and safety researchers. Operator-level diligence searches for "msha mine data by operator" land on the Mine Data Retrieval System, which rolls production, employment and violation event records up to operating companies across about 92,000 mine records back to 1970.

A workable coal data stack layers six building blocks, ordered from most to least stable:

1. Federal foundation. Start with the [EIA Annual Coal Report]( /datasets/coal-consumable-fuels/eia-annual-coal-report-acr ) for final annual production, reserves, employment, productivity and trade tables, and add the [EIA Coal Data browser and API]( /datasets/coal-consumable-fuels/eia-coal-data-production-consumption-prices-reserves ) when a job needs monthly or fresher granularity — its bulk files refresh twice daily.

1. State-level models. Pull [SEDS]( /datasets/coal-consumable-fuels/eia-state-energy-data-system-seds ) for annual coal production, consumption, prices and CO2 emissions per state from 1960; the consolidated long-format file tops 2.5 million records, loadable as bulk CSV/XLSX/ZIP or through the SEDS API.

1. Fleet and company screens. Layer the [Global Coal Plant Tracker]( /datasets/coal-consumable-fuels/global-coal-plant-tracker-gcpt ) (unit-level, GeoJSON/CSV/XLSX) under [GCEL]( /datasets/coal-consumable-fuels/global-coal-exit-list-gcel ) and [MCEL]( /datasets/coal-consumable-fuels/metallurgical-coal-exit-list-mcel ) (company-level) to connect physical assets to corporate exposure and expansion flags.

1. Price overlay. Combine [OilPriceAPI]( /datasets/coal-consumable-fuels/oilpriceapi-coal-price-data-api ) for real-time seaborne and US benchmarks with the [Ministry of Coal]( /datasets/coal-consumable-fuels/ministry-of-coal-india-coal-statistics ) for the Indian National Coal Index, and budget for [SteelHome]( /datasets/coal-consumable-fuels/steelhome-database-coke-coal-steel-raw-materials ) only when China-centric coke, PCI or anthracite assessments are essential.

Every figure below is drawn from the catalog slice for this industry, as of August 2026. Quote them directly — each is a denominator-backed statement about the coal and consumable fuels catalog rather than a rounded guess:

Eight questions cover most of what searchers ask about coal data: where free US production figures live, which database tracks the worldwide coal fleet, how divestment screening works, where mine-level records sit, whether live prices have an API, what state-level consumption data exists, how Europe's phase-out is measured, and how often EIA refreshes its numbers. Each answer below cites the specific named dataset.

These pages continue the thread:

1. market researchers — market-sizing baselines anchored to EIA reserve and price tables and Eurostat's 44-geography coal series.