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ben_wyesterday at 1:45 PM1 replyview on HN

> no one talks about it

People regularly talk about how much new coal capacity China has been building.

Quite often this is followed by "capacity, sure; they're not using all that capacity, those plants exist and are mostly not running", or some variation thereof. I've never bothered fact-checking the responses, but this conversation happens is most of the Chinese renewables discussions I've seen in the last few years.


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hnmullanyyesterday at 2:09 PM

Coal generation production in China did decline in 2025 vs 2024 - but that was the first year for it to happen.

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