China promotes coal

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China promotes coal in setback for efforts to cut emissions
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/china-promote…
China is promoting coal-fired power as the ruling Communist Party tries to revive a sluggish economy…

Official plans call for boosting coal production capacity by 300 million tons this year, according to news reports. That is equal to 7% of last year’s output of 4.1 billion tons, which was an increase of 5.7% over 2020…

Coal is important for “energy security,” Cabinet officials said at an April 20 meeting that approved plans to expand production capacity, according to Caixin, a business news magazine.

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China is planning for increase coal production because of declining import. with a sluggish economy they are not going to consume more coal.

Jaak

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China is planning for increase coal production because of declining import. with a sluggish economy they are not going to consume more coal.

This being April, we obviously don’t know how much coal China will consume this year.
We do know that:

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  • Late last year China began construction of 33 gigawatts worth of coal-fired power plants, the most since 2016

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But how many coal plants closed in 2021 and how many will close in 2022?

Posting half the story is rather empty information!

Jaak

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The Chinese economy remains sluggish, however…

We compared emissions in China over the first four months of 2019 – before the pandemic – and 2023. Emissions rose 10% between the two periods, despite the pandemic and China’s faltering economic recovery. Power generation and industry are driving the increase…

Some researchers examined the trends in China’s emissions up to 2019 and predicted the nation’s emissions would peak by 2026. Others have said the peak will occur even earlier, in 2025. But unfortunately, it seems those predictions were too optimistic…

We compared emissions data from January to April 2019 (which represents typical pre-pandemic conditions in China) with the corresponding months in 2023…In the first four months of 2019, China’s transport, industry, energy and residential sectors together emitted an average 28.2 million tonnes of CO₂ a day. In the first four months of 2023, daily emissions from those sectors were an average 30.9 million tonnes…

Average daily emissions from industry rose between 2019 and 2023 by 1.1 million tonnes or 11%. From energy, which includes electricity generation, they rose by 1.75 million tonnes or 14%. Energy production from solar and wind in China did increase substantially between the two periods. But the growth was outweighed by electricity generated from fossil fuels.

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Below is China’s coal consumption, measured in exajoules, for each year listed. Data is from the Statistical Review of World Energy, recently published by the Energy Institute.

Coal consumption in China (excluding Hong Kong & Taiwan)
Year    EJ
2018   80.47
2019   82.52
2020   84.25
2021   87.54
2022   88.41

Coal consumption increased, even during the COVID pandemic. As a comparison, US coal consumption in 2022 was 9.87 EJ.

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