Yes China is still building new coal-fired power plants, but it's using them less and less.
China's coal plants currently feed power to the grid about half of the time. By 2035, that rate will likely slip below 20%, according to BloombergNEF's forecasts.
China's coal plants currently feed power to the grid about half of the time. By 2035, that rate will likely slip below 20%, according to BloombergNEF's forecasts.
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Yes they can ramp up and down (at an economic cost in increased maintenance) but I’m curious to understand how they can simply “not feed into the grid”?
They burn coal but don’t engage turbines? Something else?
plants have some capability to ramp at a cost (Eraring has demonstrated that..) but that’s a little different to not generating at all (completely shutting down?).
I’m trying to understand what they are actually doing if they are exporting zero to the grid.
Any chance you could share a source for this?
I’ve seen data saying they are running at 50% capacity
One source: https://www.sustainabilitybynumbers.com/p/china-coal-plants