{"id":35118,"date":"2019-11-22T17:33:40","date_gmt":"2019-11-22T07:03:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/?p=35118"},"modified":"2019-11-22T17:33:40","modified_gmt":"2019-11-22T07:03:40","slug":"chinese-coal-power-panic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/chinese-coal-power-panic\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t Panic! 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It has popped up all over the place but not one single person or publication I&#8217;ve seen has bothered to put it in context &#8212; and I don&#8217;t mean that is is equal to the existing coal capacity of the EU or six times Australia&#8217;s 25 gigawatt coal power capacity.<\/p>\n<p>Upon hearing of the report, environmentally minded souls of a melancholic nature melodramatically declared we&#8217;re all doomed, while Scott Morrison took the news decidedly differently and was so excited he had to spend a little alone time with his significant other:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_35129\" style=\"width: 754px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-35129\" class=\"wp-image-35129 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/in-love.jpg\" alt=\"PM Scott Morrison's lump of coal\" width=\"744\" height=\"660\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/in-love.jpg 744w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/in-love-300x266.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 744px) 100vw, 744px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-35129\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">When approached for comment, the words, &#8220;Oh God!\u00a0 Oh God!\u00a0 Oh God!\u00a0 Black Gold!\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=NwzaxUF0k18\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Texas Tea<\/a>!&#8221;\u00a0 were heard coming from his office, so he was obviously far too busy offering thoughts and prayers to be disturbed.<\/p><\/div>\n<h2>The Surprise Is In The Other Direction<\/h2>\n<p>What is really strange about this report is how every single mention I&#8217;ve seen on the internet regards it as some kind of horrible news we had no idea was coming.\u00a0 If you didn&#8217;t know better you&#8217;d think it had leapt out of the dark at us and crushed all our hopes and dreams.<\/p>\n<p>Doom and gloomers have used it as proof we&#8217;re all going to die, while clowns who just want to watch the world burn have decided it&#8217;s somehow proves renewable energy doesn&#8217;t work and are waving the 148 gigawatt figure around as though it&#8217;s a crucifix with the power to keep Greta Thunberg at bay.<\/p>\n<p>But, while up to 148 gigawatts of new Chinese coal power capacity is bad news, this bad news is still far less bad than almost anyone dared dream only a few years ago.\u00a0 The actual message of this report is:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Things are still shit, but they&#8217;re much less shit than they were.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If you don&#8217;t believe me, take look at what reports on China from the same organization by the same authors said in the recent past.\u00a0 For Chinese coal power generating capacity under construction and likely to proceed, their figures were:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>This report &#8212; November 2019:\u00a0 147.7 gigawatts<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/endcoal.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/BoomAndBust_2019_r6.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">March 2019 Report:<\/a>\u00a0 198.6 gigawatts<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/endcoal.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/TsunamiWarningEnglish.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">September 2018 Report:<\/a>\u00a0 259 gigawatts<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Slapping these figures into a graph gives us this:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-35134 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/coaldel.gif\" alt=\"Chinese coal power capacity under active development\" width=\"900\" height=\"539\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In 13 months their estimates of how much coal capacity is under construction in China or likely to be completed has fallen by 111 gigawatts.\u00a0 That&#8217;s a 43% drop.<\/p>\n<p>The decline isn&#8217;t quite as good as it seems because approximately 36 gigawatts of coal capacity was completed in China in this time.\u00a0 But if we adjust for that by subtracting the completed capacity it still gives us this:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-35137 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/coaldeladjusted.gif\" alt=\"Coal power capacity under active development in China - adjusted\" width=\"899\" height=\"539\" \/><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s drop of 75 gigawatts, which is a 34% decrease in a little over a year.\u00a0 So around a one-third less in 13 months.<\/p>\n<h2>Chinese Coal Power &#8212; Getting Worse More Slowly Than Ever Before!<\/h2>\n<p>If 148 gigawatts of new coal capacity gets built in China and is used at the capacity factor it&#8217;s designed for, then &#8212; unless countries like Australia and the US stop farting around<sup class='endnote'><a href='https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/chinese-coal-power-panic\/#en-35118-1' id='enref-35118-1' onclick='return hhEndnotes_show(35118)'>1<\/a><\/sup> &#8212; we can pretty much kiss goodbye to limiting global warming to only 2 degrees.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d like to emphasize that &#8220;only&#8221; 2 degrees of warming is not a good thing.\u00a0 It&#8217;s like saying, &#8220;I only crushed my foot with a bowling ball twice&#8221;.\u00a0 It&#8217;s not something you can laugh off.\u00a0 Two degrees of warming means heatwaves that will kill tens of thousands in poorer nations and bushfires even worse than what we currently have.\u00a0 Or at least worse in places where climate change doesn&#8217;t prevent the bush from recovering.<\/p>\n<p>But, compared to reports from just 7 and 13 months ago, this latest one on Chinese coal power plant construction is bloody good news even though it is about a situation that&#8217;s still pretty bloody awful.\u00a0 Rather than pissing and moaning about it we should be reasonably happy.\u00a0 Like when you count your fingers after removing your hand from a dingo&#8217;s mouth and you end up with more than you expected.<sup class='endnote'><a href='https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/chinese-coal-power-panic\/#en-35118-2' id='enref-35118-2' onclick='return hhEndnotes_show(35118)'>2<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was chilling in the batcave yesterday when I was startled by the jangling of an alarm bell. &#8220;It&#8217;s the internet alarm, Batboy!&#8221; 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