A new chapter and friction between the blocks in the conflict over energy. On the one hand China and its dependence on coal, on the other, the west and its stormy relations with Russia on the western borders. With Russian… Read More ›
Mining & Energy
China’s blackouts break power cutoff pledge
As China struggles to control the latest surge of power shortages, the government seems to be hoping that the public will have short memories for how it has dealt with similar problems in the past. After months of downplaying the… Read More ›
China to build 43 new coal-fired power plants
China is planning to build 43 new coal-fired power plants and 18 new blast furnaces — equivalent to adding about 1.5% to its current annual emissions — according to a new report. The new projects were announced in the first… Read More ›
China’s Wind and Solar ‘Industries’ Doomed as CCP Slashes Subsidies
As China’s love affair with coal and nuclear power flourishes, the CCP has turned on unreliable wind and solar, with a vengeance. Of course, you don’t become an economic and military power overnight relying upon sunshine and breezes for your… Read More ›
China Suffers High Costs from Sanctions on Coal
China is caught between power shortages and the political cost of lifting its ban on coal from Australia as Beijing struggles to contain rising prices after cutting off imports from its leading commodity supplier. Reports differ widely on the origins… Read More ›
China Puts Economy First, Climate Last
China’s top economic planners have put the brakes on attempts by environmental officials to reduce carbon emissions as driving growth takes priority over meeting climate targets for now, according to people familiar with the matter. Officials at China’s main economic… Read More ›
China wants to go carbon-neutral – and won’t stop burning coal to get there
The walls and ceiling of the Nanshan mine shimmer black, carved straight into a 200 million-year-old coal seam running 1,300 feet underground. Black veins of Jurassic-era coal deposits still thread Shanxi province in China’s north, enriching public coffers and keeping… Read More ›
Beijing power players poised to pull plug on prospects to go ‘all-electric’
Feckless far-left fantasies of trading away the 80% of American fossil-fueled energy independence and prosperity for technologies that are 80% dependent on China rare earth materials makes for a gullible green new deal that only Beijing beneficiaries can love. Included… Read More ›
China’s coal shortage may lead to more power rationing
More Chinese provinces are considering electricity rationing because of a surge in consumption and tighter coal supplies for power generation. This comes after similar measures were introduced in the southern provinces of Guangdong and Yunnan last month, highlighting the severity of China’s… Read More ›
Building back blacker, China drives rise in coal-fired power plants
The number of coal-fired power stations granted approval globally has risen for the first time since 2015 – with China making up two thirds of all plans for the heavily polluting plants. Despite international pledges to drastically cut carbon emissions, 20GW… Read More ›
Insatiable: Coal-Fired Power Continues its Dominance in Energy Hungry China
The anti-energy/anti-civilisation squad keep predicting the end of coal and coal-fired power. But in China and India the demand for the black stuff – and the cheap and reliable power it delivers – is insatiable, and rising. Notwithstanding a global… Read More ›
China uses Uyghur forced labour to make solar panels, says report
The global production of solar panels is using forced labour from China’s Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang province, an investigation has found. Xinjiang produces about 45% of the world’s supply of the key component, polysilicon, the research by the UK’s Sheffield… Read More ›
China is the Fastest growing Nuclear Power in the world
The CCP say that China has to stay with coal, but The West ought pay attention more to the rapid growth of nuclear power. Last September I noted that China was poised to be the largest global nuclear power by… Read More ›
China doubles down on coal plants abroad despite carbon pledge at home
China will press ahead with its multi-billion-dollar financing of coal plants in developing countries, a top climate official said Tuesday, despite Beijing’s stated aim of slashing carbon emissions. In 2020, China opened three-quarters of the world’s newly funded coal plants,… Read More ›
China pledged to cut emissions, then went on a coal spree
China’s National People’s Congress meetings, which ended in March, were shrouded in both a real and figurative haze about how strong its climate ambitions really are and how quickly the country can wean itself from its main source of energy… Read More ›
Why China is still clinging to coal
The world is still barreling in the wrong direction on coal power plant construction, and China — despite its pledges to scale down fossil fuels to avert climate catastrophe — continues to drive that trend. China built the majority of… Read More ›
China drills deep in disputed South China Sea
China has drilled deep in the South China Sea to retrieve sediment core from the seabed, state media reported on Thursday, amid tensions over disputed waters with rival claimants Taiwan and the Philippines, as well as with the United States…. Read More ›
China’s Net Zero promise looks elusive as banks keep throwing cash at coal mines and power plants
On an unseasonably warm autumn day last October, the world’s largest coal-fired power plant fired up in the Anhui provincial city of Huaibei in eastern China. Sitting in an economic development zone carved out of verdant paddy fields, phase two… Read More ›
China generated over half world’s coal-fired power in 2020, study shows
China generated 53% of the world’s total coal-fired power in 2020, nine percentage points more that five years earlier, despite climate pledges and the building of hundreds of renewable energy plants, a global data study showed on Monday.Slideshow ( 3… Read More ›
China doubled the coal power capacity that OECD countries took offline
German energy expert Prof. Fritz Vahrenholt writes at Die kalte Sonne that “developing country” China is pulling the wool over the world’s eyes as it continues to rapidly expand its coal power. UN winks it through. How relevant is our… Read More ›
China’s rare earth dominance – a death knell for free world
“Change is constant, but no amount of change will turn the attitude of vulture to that of eagle.” ― Bamigboye Olurotimi Over the past several decades, while the United States was busy with unnecessary wars and the European Union was hoping to… Read More ›
We have been staggeringly blind to China’s rare earth dominance
With the US chips down, Beijing is hitting back. That’s one way of looking at news that, almost two years after the Trump administration began restricting supplies of advanced silicon chips to its rival superpower, China is considering export controls… Read More ›
Full Throttle: No End In Sight for China’s Mammoth Coal-Fired Power Rush
China’s quest for global domination isn’t being fuelled by sunshine and breezes; it’s coal that’s driving the Middle Kingdom’s Imperial and economic onslaught. This is a country that is deadly serious about its economic development and deadly serious about its… Read More ›
China’s New Coal Power Plant Capacity in 2020 More Than 3 Times Rest of World’s
View Post China put 38.4 gigawatts (GW) of new coal-fired power capacity into operation in 2020, according to new international research, more than three times the amount built elsewhere around the world and potentially undermining its short-term climate goals. The… Read More ›
Second Rate Wind Power Side-lined In China’s Coal-Fired Economic Miracle
We have all heard about China building a lot of coal plants, but the central role coal plays in their booming economy is amazing. It is a big reason they are the world’s leading manufacturer. China generates almost twice as… Read More ›
Ten China gold miners confirmed dead after eleven others rescued on Sunday; one still missing
A total of 22 miners working about 600 metres (2,000 feet) underground were trapped after an explosion at the Hushan mine in Qixia, a major gold-producing region in China’s coastal Shandong province, on Jan. 10. Eleven were pulled out alive… Read More ›
China’s energy policy keeps blowing a fuse
China’s President Xi Jinping has promised to turn the world’s largest consumer of fossil fuels into a carbon-neutral nation by 2060, but that might make it harder to keep the lights on. Widespread electricity rationing in December stoked fears of… Read More ›
Trapped for 2 weeks, 11 workers rescued from China gold mine
Eleven workers trapped for two weeks inside a Chinese gold mine were brought safely to the surface on Sunday, a landmark achievement for an industry long-blighted by disasters and high death tolls. State broadcaster CCTV showed workers being hauled up… Read More ›
China’s energy dilemma: between green pledges and blackouts
Widespread electricity rationing in December stoked fears of another harsh winter for the country’s households. A clunky grid monopoly is the culprit. Reviving industrial activity and a coal shortage aggravated by bans on Australian imports combined to unbalance power supply… Read More ›
China’s first deep-water oil platform ready to set off for South China Sea
China’s first domestically-built, semi-submersible deep-water oil production unit has been completed after 21 months of construction. The platform is now ready to set off to the country’s first deep-water gas field in the South China Sea. The gas field, called… Read More ›
US Slaps Sanctions on China Oil Giant Over South China Sea Activity
The United States on Thursday blacklisted Chinese oil giant CNOOC and slapped visa restrictions on officials of the Chinese navy, ruling party and state-owned enterprises over land reclamation and “coercion” of Southeast Asian claimants in the disputed South China Sea…. Read More ›
China gold mine explosion: At least a dozen workers still alive after being trapped for a week, reports say
Chinese state media say 12 out of 22 workers trapped for a week by an explosion in a gold mine are alive, as hundreds of rescuers seek to bring them to safety. The Xinhua News Agency said Monday a note passed through a… Read More ›
China loves coal far more than wind
We have all heard about China building a lot of coal plants, but the central role coal plays in their booming economy is amazing. It is a big reason they are the world’s leading manufacturer. China generates almost twice as… Read More ›
Does China pose a threat to global ‘Rare Earth’ supply chains?
As China’s economy has developed over the last several decades, its leaders have sought to transform the country into a key player in strategically important industries. Toward this end, Beijing has established China as the dominant global supplier of rare… Read More ›
China Crisis: Beijing’s Ban On Australian Coal Leaves Millions Freezing In The Dark
Electricity shortages are worsening across China, forcing tens of millions of residents in large cities to ration heating, raising questions about how long Xi Jinping can continue to delay delivery of more than $1bn of Australian coal which feeds the… Read More ›
China’s energy supplies set for further pressure as cold snap looms, companies urged to increase LNG and coal imports
China’s central state planner on Monday called on companies to step up imports of spot liquefied natural gas (LNG) and thermal coal to ensure energy supplies ahead of an expected cold spell. Demand for natural gas, a key heating fuel… Read More ›
China and Iran start drilling in this super giant gas field
Drilling operations of the first well of the game-changing but highly-controversial Phase 11 of Iran’s supergiant South Pars non-associated natural gas field officially began last week. Significant gas recovery from the enormous resource will commence in the second half of… Read More ›
Tens of millions in China facing winter power blackouts, rationing
Tens of millions across China are facing power shortages in below-freezing winter temperatures, as three provinces impose curbs on electricity use due to surging demand and a squeezed coal supply. Residents, factories and businesses in Hunan, Zhejiang and Jiangxi provinces… Read More ›
China struggles to keep the lights on amid sky-high demand
China’s roaring industrial rebound from the pandemic has an unforeseen consequence — the surge in power demand has left factories, office buildings and street lights in some areas straining under an electricity shortage. The country’s local governments are cutting power… Read More ›
China suffering mass blackouts following Australian coal embargo
Millions of Chinese residents have been left without heating in the middle of winter as cities ration electricity amid a blockade on Australian coal. Australia provided 57 per cent of China‘s thermal coal imports in 2019, which is used to generate electricity… Read More ›
China to expand its fleet of coal power plants by 10%
The future of coal looks like an ice cream truck parked half a kilometer down a mine shaft in China’s Shanxi province. The yellow and white vehicle is equipped with a 5G router from Huawei Technologies Co. to gather data… Read More ›
China to begin large-scale oil, gas exploitation in South China Sea
According to Asia Times Financial’s report “China to start big oil and gas project in South China Sea” based on local news website Netease’s report, China has recently finished construction of the world’s largest oil and gas storage platform. It… Read More ›
China’s embargo on Australian coal causes inferior grade Mongolian imports to surge
Green revolution anyone? Despite China’s aggressive geopolitical games, queues are forming at Australian coal export ports as other countries awaken from their Covid-19 economic slumber. Beijing’s ban on Australian coal has resulted in increasing imports from Mongolia, meaning the country… Read More ›
Following in China’s lead, Dubai builds new coal plant despite 2050 climate promises
The 2,400MW Hassyan clean coal power station is an ultra-supercritical (USC) power plant being build by China in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. It’s also building the peninsula’s first nuclear power plant and endlessly promotes its vast solar-power plant named after… Read More ›
Getting serious about serious power generation: China leads global nuclear power push
Any student of economics wondering how important reliable and affordable electricity is to economic growth and industrialisation, need only look at China. The CCP may not be the flavour of the month at the moment, but its role in China’s… Read More ›
China is the biggest winner of the U.S. renewables boom
Since the days of President Jimmy Carter and the 1970s oil crisis, the U.S. has relentlessly pursued the utopia of becoming energy independent. But with persistent oil crises and severe oil price shocks, it has become glaringly obvious that Washington… Read More ›
China’s geostrategic priorities become clear: oil not wind
China’s offshore wind installations for 2019 and its plans for the end of the decade are catching headlines. Less well reported, in the United Kingdom at least, is the vastly more significant evidence that China is acting firmly to reduce… Read More ›
China reverts to its dirty coal ways
Coal-fired power plants that belch pollution and contribute to global warming were supposed to be phased out in a more environmentally sensitive China. In recent years, Chinese officials have spun and won applause for new clean environment narratives at various… Read More ›
China fires up coal power plant construction
China approved nearly 10 gigawatts (GW) of new coal-fired power generation capacity in this year’s first quarter, roughly equal to the amount approved for all of last year, amid a broader scramble to jumpstart an economic hobbled by the Covid-19… Read More ›
China-designed UK nuclear reactor moves a step closer
The first Chinese-designed atomic reactor scheduled to be built in Britain has passed three out of four assessment stages, the nuclear regulator said on Thursday. General Nuclear System Limited (GNSL), an industrial partnership between China General Nuclear Power Corp (CGN)… Read More ›
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