While China leads the world in coal plant build-out, the nation is also installing twice as much solar and wind power as the rest of the world combined, according to Global Energy Monitor.
Worldwide, there are over 2,400 coal-fired power stations, which account for 92% of the world’s coal plants. Right now, China has 1,142 operating coal-fired plants and is building six times as many ...
China connected one of the world’s largest ever solar projects in an effort to curb coal consumption and reign in emissions. The 4-gigawatt facility, located in the southeastern edge of the ...
China’s booming coal production is running well ahead of demand at the onset of winter, leading to swelling inventories and plunging prices that analysts forecast will fall further. A gauge of ...
Environmental activists have been pressing the company buying an Ohio coal plant said to be the nation’s deadliest to retire the facility. But that seems unlikely, given statements it made in a ...
It includes many of the world’s wealthiest countries. In all, the number of proposed coal plants in the OECD region has decreased from 142 in 2015 to five today – a 96% fall. This is according to the ...