{"id":69465,"date":"2025-02-13T11:11:45","date_gmt":"2025-02-13T02:11:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/feb\/13\/china-coal-power-energy-production-quotas"},"modified":"2025-02-13T11:11:45","modified_gmt":"2025-02-13T02:11:45","slug":"chinas-coal-power-habit-undercuts-unprecedented-pace-of-clean-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=69465","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s coal power habit undercuts \u2018unprecedented pace\u2019 of clean energy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Minimum quotas for purchase of coal power and new project approvals threaten major advances in renewable energy production, thinktanks say<\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s energy production is putting coal and renewables in competition with each other, according to a new analysis that found continuing approval of coal-fired projects in 2024 undermined the \u201cunprecedented\u201d surge in clean energy production.<\/p>\n<p>The analysis of China\u2019s 2024 energy production \u2013 released on Thursday by two thinktanks, the Global Energy Monitor and the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA) \u2013 found China\u2019s major advances in energy production were being held back by a commitment to coal power.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/feb\/13\/china-coal-power-energy-production-quotas\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minimum quotas for purchase of coal power and new project approvals threaten major advances in renewable energy production, thinktanks sayChina\u2019s energy production is putting coal and renewables in competition with each other, according to a new analys&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1643,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,589,493,65,492,659,655,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-coal","category-energy","category-environment","category-fossil-fuels","category-renewable-energy","category-solar-power","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1643"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69465"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69466,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69465\/revisions\/69466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}