alt Hacker NewsYou can look at current levels, or look at trends. China has stopped increasing coal. They're building a small number of new coal plants, but this is outstripped by the coal plants being underutilized or decommissioned
China is really only building new renewables, almost 100x as much net renewable capacity per year compared to nuclear.
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nixon_why69 • today at 1:37 PM
China is continuing to build a shitload of coal alongside being the world's leader in renewable. It takes time.
cobbaut • today at 12:32 PM
Plus they are building coal plants as backups for when other sources fail.
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Only as recently as last year did China stop increasing its net electric generation from coal. And if you look at all primary energy (not just electricity), their dependence on fossil fuels is something like 90%.
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/energy-mix?stackMode=rela...