Construction began on 94.5 gigawatts of coal power plant capacity in 2024, more than in any year since 2015, according to a worldwide database of coal plants maintained by Global Energy Monitor.

Push spurred by changing economics and energy security comes despite clean energy strides—with Trump administration now eyeing a similar coal resurgence.

Surrounded by cranes, the main building at the 3 billion-plus yuan ($419 million) Yushen Yuheng plant is taking shape, part of a spate of new coal-fired power construction in China even as the ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. China’s coal plant construction surged last year to the highest level in almost a decade, conflicting ...

Last year, China's coal, gas and nuclear plants ran at just 49 percent of ... projects -- another 350 gigawatts are currently under construction, CoalSwarm found in its mid-2016 report.

BEIJING--Approvals for new coal-fired power plants in China dropped sharply in the ... plan released this month to “accelerate the construction of a new power system” took aim at bottlenecks ...

China, both a leader in renewable energy and the world’s biggest carbon emitter, is ramping up its green energy.

This huge round structure, called ‘the dome’, is only one piece in China's Fuqing Nuclear Power Plant ... its reliance on coal and oil and limit CO2 emissions while keeping up with its economic growth ...

(Bloomberg) -- China ... biggest coal-power building boom in a decade, reinforcing the role of the dirtiest fossil fuel in its energy mix even as it aims to transition to renewables. Nearly 95 ...

BEIJING (AP) — 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 ...