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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Environment
Fiona Harvey and Amy Hawkins

China’s coal-fired power boom may be ending amid slowdown in permits

Coal China David Fishman Xi Jinping Electricity CREA Global Energy Monitor
Smoke billows from chimneys of a coal-fired power station
A coal-fired power station in Shaanxi province. The Chinese government has a target of bringing 80GW of new coal-fired generation capacity online in 2024. Photograph: Andy Wong/AP

Coal-fired power is still enjoying a construction boom in China, but a marked slowdown in the permitting of future plants has given experts hope that the world’s biggest emitter may be turning a corner.

China led the world in the construction of new coal-fired power plants in the first half of 2024, with work beginning on more than 41GW of new generation capacity, data published on Thursday showed.

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