Posted on 01/18/2024 10:10:23 AM PST by george76
Higher power demand and efforts to boost energy security pushed China’s coal production to a record-high level in 2023,
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Chinese coal output rose by 2.9% year-over-year to 4.66 billion metric tons in 2023
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Coal imports also rose last year, as some domestic mining operations were suspended for some time in 2023
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Higher demand after the COVID restrictions were lifted and higher domestic coal prices led to record-high coal imports into China, which soared by 61.8% year-on-year to 474.42 million metric tons in 2023,
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In the latter part of 2023, China ramped up coal and natural gas production, imports, and consumption as its electricity demand jumped in the second half and looks to hit a record-high winter peak demand.
Chinese authorities have been keen to avoid a repeat of the 2022 shortages and spiking prices and have instructed utilities and producers to maximize imports and output before the winter.
China continues to rely on coal and coal-fired power generation to meet its growing power demand, and despite being the world's top investor in solar and wind capacity, it also plans a lot of new coal-fired electricity capacity.
During the first half of 2023 alone, China approved more than 50 GW of new coal power, Greenpeace said in a report this year. That's more than it did in all of 2021,
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This is fine because Chinese coal doesn’t contribute to climate change like ours does.
It’s science!
Big Tech Silicon vs Old Tech Coal make for interesting political co-dependencies.
No ChiCom Huawei in Autralia? - No ChiCom purchases of AUS Coal.
It’s winter time so, well, . . . Xi needs to stay warm.
All is forgiven.
Historically, China had thousands of tiny coal producers - literally “two men and a mule”. Terrible safety record, zero adherence to any standards, etc.
Simple while China has cheap and reliable energy, the west will compensate for chinas co2 emissions by gutting our energy usage
Problem solved algore can sleep well in one of his mansions
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Those of you who permit or cannot avoid contact with woke types, what do they think about China’s heavy coal use?
When they finish answering what they think about Hamas raping women and killing babies and their attempt to get an offer of $10,000 for the severed head of an Israeli they decapitated.
Wondering.
The left often runs away and hides from the truth / they know it is a Marxist scam.
Has Greta Thunderpants weighed in on this yet?
The people who routinely tell us that the Chinese are smarter than us, somehow don’t want us to duplicate this behavior from China.
But PA, WV, and OH will continue to vote for the Communist Party ticket...
The millions of unemployed & under-employed citizens who depended directly or indirectly on coal will still support the Bidenista communists in the WH...
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