king coal dethroned, page-3

I've just had a quick glance at the IEA's 2011 World Energy Outlook executive summary. King Coal will remain in rude health.

http://www.worldenergyoutlook.org/media/weowebsite/2011/executive_summary.pdf

The best case scenario sees 2035 coal consumption on par with 2009, worst case sees it as 65% more.

It's true that new investment/generation will be skewed to gas and renewables but as you say existing coal operations will stil be chugging away quite nicely.