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China Starts Cancelling Under-Construction Coal Plants

China has taken huge steps this year to slow and stop the runaway coal sector, cancelling approximately 100 GW of projects in permitting stage this April.

October 24th, 2016
Lauri Myllyvirta
Joanna Mills
October 24th, 2016
By Lauri Myllyvirta
And Joanna Mills
A Chinese boy cycles past a cooling towers of a coal-fired power plant in Dadong, Shanxi province, China.

Chinese leaders have called a halt to construction work on 30 large coal-fired power plants with a combined capacity of 17GW — greater than the UK’s entire coal fleet. This unprecedented move indicates just how serious the Chinese authorities are about bringing the country’s coal power bubble under control. And those 30 plants aren’t the only

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