Coal plants globally increasing is wrong information

Coal plants are increasing globally is false information but that does not stop the coal lobby and anti-renewable lobby from promoting the opposite of this data. They buy into this misinformation as it suits their agenda that renewable energy is unreliable or expensive, or a host of climate denier arguments.

  • Outside China, the global coal fleet shrank for the fourth year in a row. More than half (56%) of the 45 gigawatts of newly commissioned coal capacity was in China. This graph shows China’s share of coal under development increased in 2021 by 7% to 55% (251 GW), now accounting for over half of the capacity under development in the world for the first time.
  • Coal plants given a close-by date nearly doubled to 750 coal plants (550 GW).
  • Only 170 plants (89 GW), or 5% of the operating fleet today, are not covered by a phase-out date or carbon neutrality target.

Global Energy Monitor Data

The full report should be downloaded from the website of Boom and Bust Coal 2022 at

  • World 2,400 coal-fired power plants operating
  • 79 countries
  • Total of 2,100 GW of capacity.
  • 176 GW of coal capacity under construction at more than 189 plants
  • 280 GW is in pre-construction at 296 plants.
  • In 2021, the operating coal fleet grew by a net 18.2 GW
  • From the full report from Global Energy Monitor https://globalenergymonitor.org/report/boom-and-bust-coal-2022/

Coal Plants Are Increasing Globally is False Information From Global Energy Monitor

Coal Plants Are Increasing Globally is False Information from this Global energy Monitor
The decline of Coal: by David Hoffman on April 2022 https://public.flourish.studio/visualisation/9483310/?utm_source=showcase&utm_campaign=visualisation/9483310

Retirement of Coal Plants

  • U.S.
    • 16.1 GW in 2019
    • 11.6 GW in 2020
    • 6.4 GW to 9 GW in 2021
  • European Union’s 27 member states retired a record 12.9 GW in 2021
    • Germany (5.8 GW)
    • Spain (1.7 GW)
    • Portugal (1.9 GW). Portugal became coal free in November 2021, nine years before its targeted 2030 phase-out date.