{"id":136017,"date":"2025-09-07T12:30:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T12:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=136017"},"modified":"2025-09-07T12:30:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T12:30:08","slug":"why-it-makes-sense-for-green-tech-exporter-china-to-ramp-up-coal-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=136017","title":{"rendered":"Why it makes sense for green-tech exporter China to ramp up coal power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostChina switched on 21 gigawatts of new coal power capacity in the first half of this year, the highest since 2016, according to a recent energy report. This came after electricity demand hit a historic high in July, driven by extreme heatwaves. Hydropower faltered, and coal plants were fired up to meet the load.<br \/>\nAt first glance, this looks like a step backwards for climate policy. But China\u2019s clean-energy engine is still accelerating, adding 212GW of solar power capacity in the first six months,&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/opinion\/china-opinion\/article\/3324092\/why-it-makes-sense-green-tech-exporter-china-ramp-coal-power?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostChina switched on 21 gigawatts of new coal power capacity in the first half of this year, the highest since 2016, according to a&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136017"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=136017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136017\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=136017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=136017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=136017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}