Redoubled coal investment comes at the expense of desperately-needed improvements to China’s electric grid and energy storage capacity that would make it easier for existing capacity to meet periods of high energy demand.
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China has already approved more new coal in 2023 than it did in all of 2021 — Greenpeace. Beijing – Provincial governments in China approved at least
20.45 gigawatts (GW) of new coal in the first three months of 2023, according to official approval documents, while frequently citing energy security concerns.
But they are still building coal plants