Big Coal’s Big Comeback: Global use hits record high in 2024 – ‘China has more coal fired power gene

[rangerrebew]

Big Coal’s Big Comeback: Global use hits record high in 2024 – ‘China has more coal fired power generation than any nation on earth’
By Admin
October 23, 2025
12:59 pm



Via Committee to Unleash Prosperity:

Have you noticed that just about everything you’ve been told about energy and climate change policy is one big fat LIE after another? We’ve exposed many of these falsehoods on these pages over the past five years.

No, there isn’t a green energy transition. No, wind and solar are not cost competitive or scalable (just ask Germany). No, China isn’t trending toward green energy.

And here’s the latest: no, coal is NOT dead.  It’s back on the rebound.

Let’s start with the reality of China.  In 2024, China added more than 500 TWh of coal fired power generation, equivalent to half of Japan’s entire grid.

https://www.climatedepot.com/2025/10/23/big-coals-big-comeback-global-use-hits-record-high-in-2024-china-has-more-coal-fired-power-generation-than-any-nation-on-earth/

[IsailedawayfromFR]

It never went away anywhere except in the Western World's wrong-headed swing toward renewables.

The rest of the world never let up, and some like China accelerated towards coal because it is cheap, plentiful and dependable, ann good reasons to use it as a primary power source.

[libertybele]

It never went away anywhere except in the Western World's wrong-headed swing toward renewables.

The rest of the world never let up, and some like China accelerated towards coal because it is cheap, plentiful and dependable, ann good reasons to use it as a primary power source.

We're going green??   

[Fishrrman]

We have lots and lots of coal here.

But the LAST THING we want to do is mine it and then ship it to... China.
Let them dig their own coal, or get it from somewhere else.

We are going to NEED our own coal someday.
Our yet-to-be-used resoruces should be properly husbanded for our future.
Not... China's...

[IsailedawayfromFR]

We have lots and lots of coal here.

But the LAST THING we want to do is mine it and then ship it to... China.
Let them dig their own coal, or get it from somewhere else.

We are going to NEED our own coal someday.
Our yet-to-be-used resoruces should be properly husbanded for our future.
Not... China's...

our coal supply is virtually unlimited.

Why not extract money from China?

They get plenty from us