> All I hear about are the dozens of coal plants China builds each year.
I suspect this is partly true and gets repeated a lot, but then nobody follows up with the actual numbers of plants that get built and are producing. I have found these where a lot of the coal plants gets approved but then not actually built, cancelled etc:
I suspect this is partly true and gets repeated a lot, but then nobody follows up with the actual numbers of plants that get built and are producing. I have found these where a lot of the coal plants gets approved but then not actually built, cancelled etc:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1sHBsK_Ez7C9XA4HKRQSv...
https://energyandcleanair.org/publication/china-puts-coal-on...
Also China's coal use seems to not grow too much anymore.