The amount of coal power capacity under development worldwide saw a dramatic drop in the first half of 2016, mainly due to shifting policies in Asia, according to a survey by CoalSwarm’s Global Coal Plant Tracker. Overall, the “coal plant pipeline”—the total amount of coal-fired generating capacity in pre-construction planning—dropped from 1,090 gigawatts (GW) at the beginning of 2016 to 932 GW in July. The total reduction, 158 GW, or 14% of the previous total, is nearly equal to the entire coal-fired generating capacity of the European Union (162 GW).
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[1] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/reports-documents/shrinking-coal-plant-pipeline
[2] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/christine-shearer
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/ted-nace
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/publisher/coalswarm
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/coal
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/thermal-power-plants
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/statistics
[8] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/fossil-fuels
[9] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/india
[10] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/china
[11] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/carbon-dioxide
[12] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/green-house-gases
[13] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/climate-change
