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«This is old news,» says Ranping Song, an official with the Global Climate Program of the World Resources Institute (WRI) in Washington, D.C. Song says that last February, the National Bureau of Statistics of China released preliminary revised
estimates of coal consumption for 2013 and 2014 along with indications that data for prior years might also be low.
The report focuses largely on coal - control policies issued by the central government and resulting pledges of coal limits in 12 of China's 34 provinces, accounting for 44
percent of its coal consumption.
More than 94 gigawatts of new generation are expected to come on line in 2010, representing 375 million
tonnes of coal consumption per year.
In turn, Asian demand is dominated by China; demand in China increased almost five-fold between 1980 - 2010 and accounted for 73 % of Asia's consumption and almost
half of coal consumption globally in 2010.
In a recent report by the Global Carbon Project published during COP 23 — the informal name for the 23rd Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change — the authors predicted a 3 percent
increase of coal consumption in China, leading to a 3.5 percent increase in China's carbon emissions, a key contributor to a 2 percent increase of global emissions in 2017.
China's coal consumption has steadily decreased by a few percentage points a year since 2013, prompting our
pronouncement of a coal consumption peak in an article published in the summer of 2016 in Nature Geoscience.
If the temperature data really measure the climate and its warming and if we assume that the warming has a global character, these data as a function of the station should be uncorrelated to various socioeconomic variables such as the GDP, its growth, literacy, population growth, and the
trend of coal consumption.
The amount and energy
content of coal consumption by State and sector are detailed in Energy Information Administration, State Energy Data Report, DOE / EIA -0214, published annually.
But several experts say the higher
rate of coal consumption has been known for months and has already been factored into the negotiations.
According to Gray's study, while the
growth of coal consumption has slowed, 570 new coal - fired plants are either being built or are planned, and if they go ahead would be responsible for a further 32,000 premature deaths each year.
Alternatively, at the present rate
of coal consumption, U.S. reserves are about 300 — 400 years.
But several experts say the higher rate
of coal consumption has been known for months and has already been factored into the negotiations.
China — responsible for 30 %
of coal consumption will hit peak coal in 2030 and thereafter start replacing coal with nuclear.
Lloyd wrote «fossil fuel generators, in the same periods when wind turbines had been operating, fluctuated their output to match demand but did not reduce their rate
of coal consumption.»