Is it 299 actually being built or is it 299 on the books and might be built but if the current trend continues won't be built.
Currently China has an over supply of electricity an has a lot of power stations running at reduced power or mothballed.
Rutan Around,
That is the
minimum number that will be built, along with substantial new nuclear, solar and wind, with some conventional hydro.
+43% expansion is the net of new coal power after closure of old coal fired.
R.P.China does NOT have an over supply, what they maintain, and will continue to maintain, is a substantial buffer of current and future availability of based load power, versus demand, so that they will never be within cooee of the unbelievably stupid situation, in which Australia has placed itself.
Sad thing is, what is now China's basic planning policy is what we had in the 1950's/60s. after years of power shortages --- a policy of plenty of cheap power to encourage industry.
You see, I can still remember all the regular blackouts of the 1940s/early 1950s in NSW.
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