Construction starts on new coal plants on track to hit a record low outside of China since yearly data

■ The global proposed coal capacity has collapsed outside of China since 2015, and now, with fewer ■ 110 GW of coal power capacity is still under projects in play, it has reached a plateau with consideration outside of China, with the top ten almost no net change in 2023. [...] The country is continuing a coal In 2022, regulators set a target to begin construction power plant permitting spree that started in 2022, on 80 GW of new coal power capacity in 2023, and and annual construction starts have increased each another 80 GW in 2024. [...] A November 2023 analysis by the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air While construction figures for Q3 and Q4 of 2023 will and E3G highlighted that Xi Jinping’s 2021 pledge to only be available in the Global Coal Plant Tracker’s “strictly control” coal-fired power generation projects early 2024 release for China, a comparison of the is being ignored in two ways: 1) Not only have coal Q1–Q3. [...] is still concentrated: The top ten countries in terms of cumulative proposed coal make up 83% of the 110 As of October 2023, coal is still under consideration GW of coal power capacity under consideration out- (announced, pre-permitted, and permitted) in a total side of China, with India, Bangladesh, and Indonesia of 32 countries (see Table 1 and summary table). [...] Background on the Global Coal Plant Tracker The Global Coal Plant Tracker is an online database The Global Coal Plant Tracker supports the that identifies and maps every known coal-fired Bloomberg Global Coal Countdown, which brings generating unit and every new unit proposed since together data from several leading think tanks and 2010 (30 megawatts and larger).