China permitted more coal power plants last year than any time in the last seven years, according to a new report released this week. It's the equivalent of about two new coal power plants per week.
There are government and industry arguments that the coal plants will be used as backup support for renewables and during periods of intense electricity demand, like heat waves, says, the assistant research director at the Center for Global Sustainability at the University of Maryland School of Public Policy."That's being used as an excuse for new projects," Cui says.
"When the energy crisis happened, when energy security is a big concern, the country just seeks solutions from coal by default," Yu says. . But there are questions over how high that peak will get and how soon that peak will come, says Champenois.there must be"no new development of unabated coal-fired power plants" to keep temperatures less than 1.5 degrees Celsius and avoid the worst effects of climate change.
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