{"id":330614,"date":"2024-05-30T10:07:06","date_gmt":"2024-05-30T08:07:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=330614"},"modified":"2024-05-30T10:07:08","modified_gmt":"2024-05-30T08:07:08","slug":"china-india-break-coal-production-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=330614","title":{"rendered":"China, India break coal production records"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Back in April the Environmental Protection Agency issued a new final rule<\/a> that will force U.S. coal-fired power plants to install carbon capture systems or shut down operations. The rule is a key part of President Biden\u2019s pledge to eliminate all energy sources that emit carbon dioxide by 2035 in the electricity sector and by 2050 for home heating, steel production, and all other uses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But, as Tsvetana Paraskova reported in May<\/a>, the Biden Administration plan faces insurmountable problems, given that fossil fuels still provide 60 percent of total U.S. electricity generation. Coal\u2019s share has fallen to 16 percent, while natural gas accounts for 43 percent. Coal-fired power generation is highest during summer heatwaves when wind power is intermittent. Thus, coal still supplies more electric power than wind (11 percent), hydropower (6 percent), or solar (4 percent).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The push seeks to eradicate not just coal but all fossil fuels from American society. The fly in Biden\u2019s ointment is more like the elephant in a tiny room. Around the world, countries large and small are far more concerned about providing energy and electricity for their citizens than pursuing a fearmonger-led \u201ccrusade\u201d to rid the planet of life-giving carbon dioxide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here at home, five states \u2013 North Dakota, Missouri, Kentucky, Wyoming, and West Virginia \u2013 still rely on coal for more than half their electricity generation. Data centers, artificial intelligence, and electric vehicles are using greater and greater shares of existing power, taxing utilities struggling to keep energy supply at levels sufficient to meet energy demand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Over in Europe, where official enthusiasm for ending fossil fuels has at times surpassed that of America\u2019s even Germany has reopened<\/a> a coal-fired power plant and other European countries are pondering their own need for alternatives to Russian natural gas. EU lignite production had dropped<\/a> to 240 megatons in 2020 from over 300 megatons in the 2010s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Four EU countries mine hard coal, led by Poland and Germany, with annual production at about 150 megatons a year in the recent past. Coal still provides 70 percent of Poland\u2019s electric power, while coal\u2019s share in Germany is well above 25 percent. Coal provides about 11 percent of Russia\u2019s electricity, making it the world\u2019s fifth largest consumer of coal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prior to invading Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin had announced a new national goal to achieve net zero carbon dioxide by 2060 \u2013 long after the West\u2019s self-imposed deadline. Other nations outside the globalist cabal based in Doha and Brussels (and Washington, DC) are even less inclined to end coal production, India and China, notably, are moving in the other direction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Back in April, Indian Prime Minister Narenda Modi was overjoyed to report that his nation had produced over 1 billion metric tons of coal and lignite in the 2023-24 fiscal year, at nearly 100 million tons more than in 2022-23. Modi, whose nation still needs a lot more electric power to meet its first-world goals, lauded the production as \u201ca remarkable feat and a historic milestone toward self-reliance\u201d in a vital sector.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A new report<\/a> from the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA) and the Global Energy Monitor (GEM) says that coal power plant permitting, construction starts, and new project announcements accelerated dramatically in China in 2022, with new permits reaching the highest level since 2015. China\u2019s coal power capacity starting construction was six times as large as that in the rest of the world combined.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

National Public Radio\u2019s Julia Simon reports that<\/a> China\u2019s heat waves increased demand for air conditioning and dried up rivers, forcing Chinese hydropower facilities to shut down. Aiqun Yu, co-author of the CREA-GEM report, noted that high prices for liquefied natural gas due to the Russia-Ukraine war led another Chinese province to turn to coal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The CREA-GEM report somewhat greenwashes China\u2019s commitment to coal, claiming that the \u201cmassive additions of new coal-fired capacity don\u2019t necessarily mean that coal use or CO2<\/sub> emissions from the power sector will increase in China.\u201d After all, China is also building wind, solar, and nuclear energy facilities and President Xi has \u201cpledged that China would reduce coal consumption in the 2026-2030 period.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This, the authors said apologetically, \u201cwould mean a declining utilization rate\u201d rather than continued growth in coal-fired power generation. Surely, they say without words, China will phase out these expensive new coal plants within the next eight years. And pigs fly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Still, the CREA-GEM team found it necessary to include some \u201cpolicy recommendations\u201d to instruct President Xi in how to stay in the good graces of the Net Zero overlords. First, they said, China must impose strict controls on new coal power capacity and reject or revoke permits to projects not necessary for \u201csupporting grid stability\u201d or \u201csupporting the integration of variable renewable energy.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Way back in 2020 UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told India<\/a> it should commit to carbon neutrality by ending fossil fuel subsidies and investing in solar power. Claiming that investing in coal is \u201cbad economics,\u201d Guterres said India can only become a \u201ctrue global superpower in the fight against climate change if it speeds up its shift from fossil fuels to renewable energy.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Did Prime Minister Modi bow and scrape to Guterres?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres in the same year<\/a> went all the way to Beijing to \u201curge\u201d China to stop funding coal projects, because (OMG!) the Paris climate agreement goals will slip out of reach without China\u2019s cooperation. There, too, he begged the \u201ceconomic superpower\u201d to genuflect, whispering that \u201cthe way in which China restores growth will have a major impact on whether we can keep 1.5C within reach\u201d in the post-pandemic world (spoken at the height of the pandemic!).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Was President Xi so flattered by the former Prime Minister of Portugal that he immediately stopped all future plans for new coal-fired power plants in China?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Back in November 2021, forty-something countries, including coal-reliant Poland, Vietnam, and Chile, all committed<\/a> to shift away from coal. The U.S. and 19 other nations would only pledge to end public financing for \u201cunabated\u201d fossil fuel projects abroad by the end of 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What would happen if only the West and its friends abandon fossil fuels?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Back in April the Environmental Protection Agency issued a new final rule that will force U.S. coal-fired power plants to install carbon capture systems or shut down operations. 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