The amount of new coal power being built around the world fell by nearly two-thirds last year, prompting campaigners to claim the polluting fossil fuel was in freefall.
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| Seeing the light? China is turning its back on coal-fired power plants to clean up air pollution, curtailing planned new units and encouraging cleaner energy. |
The dramatic decline in new coal-fired units was overwhelmingly due to policy shifts in China and India and subsequent declining investment prospects, according to a report by Greenpeace, the US-based Sierra Club and research network CoalSwarm.
The report said the amount of new capacity starting construction was down 62% in 2016 on the year before, and work was frozen at more than a hundred sites in China and India. In January, China’s energy regulator halted work on a further 100 new coal-fired projects, suggesting the trend was not going away.
Read Adam Vaughan’s story on The Guardian - “Coal in 'freefall' as new power plants dive by two-thirds.”
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