Last year, China approved the construction of another 106 gigawatts of coal-fired power capacity, the equivalent of two large coal power plants per week and its highest in seven years, new research has shown.
The report — compiled by energy data organisations the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA) and the Global Energy Monitor (GEM) — said the coal power capacity starting construction in China was six times as large as that in all of the rest of the world combined.
