China doubles coal-fired power plant capacity… Aim to avoid European, US blunders – Can it be done?
Via P Gosselin
hina continues to make breakthroughs with new construction and expansion of coal-fired power plants
In Germany, while extreme climate groups like Extinction Rebellion and Last Generation are glued to road surfaces and airports to save the planet from the myth of climate catastrophe, China is planning doubled their coal-fired capacity. power plant, report German online blackout news here.
There is still a long way to go before China turns green. Coal is still number 1 so far. Source: https://ourworldindata.org/energy
“China is building a large number of new coal-fired power plants, possibly more than the rest of the world combined,” the report said. power failure news, citing Bloomberg. But that massive additional capacity is supposed to serve only as a backup for renewables. “Power plants will probably never run at full capacity.”
4 times what Germany needs
By the end of 2023, China plans to build new coal-fired power plants with a capacity of at least 165 gigawatts – more than double Germany’s total current electricity demand.
That number is estimated to grow to “a total of 270 gigawatts over the five years to 2025.” China’s planned additional capacity will be more than the rest of the world.
So why is China going ahead at breakneck speed to install coal-fired power plants?
The answer is that their leaders have seen the huge mistakes of countries rushing into green energy chaotically without any plan, like Germany, which is facing intermittent blackouts in winter due to grid instability due to green energy and discontinuation of coal and nuclear power plants. China aims to avoid the collapse of German power.
“China’s strategy is to respond to mistakes in the US and Europe with its expansion. There, people stop investing in fossil fuel production and infrastructure before renewables can replace them,” summary power failure news.
There is no way around conventional power plants
In addition, China’s strategies demonstrate that it is not physically possible to rely solely on wind and solar power, and that a massive fossil fuel backup system is imperative and inevitable. President Xi Jinping announced the country’s goal is to phase out fossil fuels and is implementing a strategy of “build new before discarding old”. But clearly China is building a lot of old buildings and very little getting rid of them.
Eccentric protesters should keep their eyes on China if they really care about green energy progress.
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