Sentences with phrase «coal capacity tripled»
Coal capacity tripled between 2007 and 2017, from 71,121 MW to 211,562 MW.
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China is expected to triple its coal - fired generating capacity by 2030, according to the report.
Solar and wind each provide 20 % of total electricity supply; nuclear capacity is tripled, and the technology for coal plant carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) is assumed to be available without constraint.
While the country is scaling up its renewable energy, up to 15 percent of its energy needs by 2020, or 20 gigawatts (coal currently provides 67 percent of the country's energy), by 2020, the country wants to nearly triple its hydropower capacity, to 300 gigawatts.
He noted that China in recent years had tripled its capacity for wind generation, enacted vehicle fuel standards tougher than those in America and closed hundreds of obsolete, coal - fired power plants.