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As growth slows, China looks to coal for quick-fire stimulus
It has added a total of 42.9 GW in the past 18 months, even as 30 countries have cut their coal fleets
Published Tue, Dec 10, 2019 · 09:50 PM
Beijing
THE chimney stacks churn out a constant grey smoke, and the air reeks of burning coal.
A coal-fired power plant built by Chinese state-owned Zhenhua Oil sits in the countryside amid corn fields, 40 km from Tangshan, the steel capital of China. At full capacity, it produces 350 megawatts (MW) of power.
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