Four common talking points surrounding China’s ongoing coal-power expansion and how and why the current wave of new projects might end.

China (31.5% share in 2023) and India (8.1% share in 2023) have driven the increase in global carbon emissions this century. As illustrated below by US energy expert Robert Bryce, China and India’s ...

A dramatic graph. The rest of the world has kept coal consumption almost static for the last 30 years while China has tripled its consumption. This comes from Doomberg who argues that the Chinese ...

China’s electricity output from thermal sources – which are predominantly coal-fired – increased by 3.7% in August compared to the same month last year, according to official Chinese data ...

The headline news in China's energy transition is often about how the world's second-largest economy is adding solar and wind ...

Data from China’s National Bureau of Statistics showed electricity production from the country’s coal, oil, natural gas, and nuclear power sectors increased 1.5% year-over-year, the slowest ...

Cheap coal will continue to provide the ballast for China’s energy security in the coming year, according to the country’s top industry grouping. Output is likely to rise 1.5% in 2025 for a ...

China's Dahaize Mine is utilizing AI and automation to achieve unprecedented productivity and profitability in coal extraction, with each worker generating nearly $1 million in annual output.

Coal consumption is not only a major driver of global CO 2 emissions but also a significant contributor to China's air pollution crisis, which is responsible for an estimated 1.1 million deaths ...

China's coal output is expected to increase 36-million metric tons, or 0.8%, to about 4.7-billion tonnes in 2024, a Chinese coal industry group said on Wednesday, slower than last year's 2.9% growth.

China’s power industry began construction on nearly 100 gigawatts of new coal plant capacity last year, the most in nearly a decade, a report from two clean-energy groups said Thursday.