By Jo Nova
According to expert reporters, and smug academics, Coal is dead, a stranded asset, and a dying investment all around the globe. Meanwhile, the International Energy Agency (IEA) has just published a graph of global approvals of coal-fired plants over the last ten years. For some inexplicable reason, the original graph was various shades of blue and green, by crikey. (Almost like the IEA hoped that no one would notice the contribution from China?). But obviously, the CCP is always Communist Red, so I fixed the graph for them. We can see how badly China wants to achieve Net Zero right here in the graph We can also see how good President Xi is at sticking to his words — look at the ramp up from 2021.
These are just approvals for coal plants, of course, but the IEA says “China started construction of nearly 100GW of new coal fired plants”. No one is planning a coal plant in 2025 that they want to shut down in 2035. Australia’s total coal fired capacity (built over the last fifty years) is 18GW. China approved five times as many new coal plants in a single year as we currently run. […]
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June 11, 2025 at 03:37PM
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