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minus-squareadmiralteal@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up12·9 months agoChina’s also building craploads of things like coal power plants in order to force longterm dependency on an expensive and bad commodity. It’s definitely mercantilism.
minus-squareisles@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·9 months agoI wanted to educate myself a little here: Electricity sector in India shows growth of fossil fuel plants has been shrinking: 2017 had 22.94% YoY increase in fossil fuel electricity generation while 2018 was 2.05% increase and 2023 was 0.49% increase. https://energyandcleanair.org/publication/india-enters-an-unnecessary-coal-plant-permitting-spree-in-2023/ Says that ~35GWh of coal production is permitted, pre-permitted, or announced. Which would be ~13% growth in fossil fuel use, a large increase in rate compared to the year previous. The linked article states the plants in construction are already excessive (according to India’s National Energy Plan), as would be any future plants. What’s not clear is that any of these built plants will come online or be used at all.
China’s also building craploads of things like coal power plants in order to force longterm dependency on an expensive and bad commodity.
It’s definitely mercantilism.
I wanted to educate myself a little here:
Electricity sector in India shows growth of fossil fuel plants has been shrinking: 2017 had 22.94% YoY increase in fossil fuel electricity generation while 2018 was 2.05% increase and 2023 was 0.49% increase.
https://energyandcleanair.org/publication/india-enters-an-unnecessary-coal-plant-permitting-spree-in-2023/ Says that ~35GWh of coal production is permitted, pre-permitted, or announced. Which would be ~13% growth in fossil fuel use, a large increase in rate compared to the year previous.
The linked article states the plants in construction are already excessive (according to India’s National Energy Plan), as would be any future plants.
What’s not clear is that any of these built plants will come online or be used at all.