China Thermal Power Up 2.4% Last Year
By Paul Homewood
Provisional figures from the China Energy Portal indicate that thermal generation continues to rise in China, albeit at a slower rate then the last few years:
https://chinaenergyportal.org/en/2019-electricity-other-energy-statistics-preliminary/
As I noted in November, there are three factors behind the slower rise in thermal (which is almost certainly predominantly coal-fired):
- Overall demand for electricity has increased at a much slower rate in 2019 – 4.7% against 8.4% in 2019. This reflects the dramatic slowdown in Chinese economic growth.
- New nuclear capacity has been added in the last two years.
- Better hydro generation, presumably due to wetter weather.
Significantly, thermal generating capacity has continued to grow in 2019, by 4.1%. Just as significant is the dramatic slowdown in new solar power capacity being added. In 2018, 45GW was added, but this dropped to 26GW last year, following the restriction of subsidies.
New wind capacity increased marginally in 2019, from 21GW in 2018 to 25GW.
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NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT 
Meanwhile Chasing the Green-Hydrogen dream
ITM Power announces it’s biggest ever loss
Since starting in 2011 the corp has never made a profit and most of its income come from grants.
Its spending grows as its plans get grandiose.
By rights it should be bankrupt, but investors keep shoving new money in, as they chase the dream.
Most outsiders just assume it’s dead easy and cheep yo make hydrogen from electrolysis.
https://www.sharecast.com/amp/news/aim-bulletin/itm-power-loss-widens-but-linde-buys-20-stake–7050544.html
based in Sheffield
Maybe the news is that German chemicals giant Linde is accumulating ownership in a shell of a company that will see a new home in Sheffield. Or maybe Linde just wants Hydrogen.
Obviously they claim that is the news
Linde would love a breakthrough that makes electrolysis economic
but hasn’t happened yet
just massive losses.
I do not believe any data produced by China.
Figures from the Chinese government need to be taken with a lorry load of salt.
What happened to “Attenborough’s Arctic Betrayal” from yesterday? Sent it back to stiffen it up?
I must be going blind. Apologises, its still there.
That’s a lot of ‘thermal’. Where are the whiny activists to draw attention to this scandal?
Whoop, whoop! “China increased its solar energy production by 26.5%”
That’s the bestest in the whole world!
See, they’re doing everything to halt the Climate Emergency, when the nasty USA & UK do nothing!”
Hi Paul – wonderful job you’re doing. I’ve been friends with all the anti-wind people for years – Ioan Gruffudd, Lyn Jenkins, Robert Watts, Anthony Bright Paul, Dave Haskell, etc., and have written over 60 books, published in Chinese, Japanese, Russian, Turkish, Polish, Dutch, German etc., etc/, and in every English-speaking country. For years I’ve been accumulating stuff, and am starting a book to some extent showing how the costs are astronomical to meet targets for no purpose. I’m hoping to get a big USA publisher – and I reckon I will – one of my publishers, Quercus is part of Hachette, one of the big 4 English lang publishers. Anyway, recently I saw something somewhere, in the last two weeks, about the % of carbon in the atmosphere never being able to go above a certain %. Ring any bells? Of course I will be trawling your excellent site and attributing anything and if I make any money, I’ll certainly throw some reasonable funding your way. Best, Ter
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I’ve not come across that claim, Terry
Is this the effect of rising CO2? So once you get to a certain level you can add more but it makes no difference, a bit like painting a window, once the first layer is on and blocks the light you can put on as many more as you like but it won’t block any more light.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/03/08/the-logarithmic-effect-of-carbon-dioxide/
A major key is to get major publishers involved, so much of our work is in blogs and self published and small publishers. PPS Ban the BBC!
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It’s no surprise that the Citizen Assembly is being fed total BS by extremely ignorant/dishonest ‘experts’. Specific to this thread see approx. 17:45 Joanna Haigh on China LOL.
Thanks for that very revealing video, Mr GN. I decided not to watch it all as I would likely grind my teeth to dust in frustration. As you point out, what a load of codswallop! From the use of the term “denier” onwards, it’s a travesty of the truth. It is utterly shocking that our government allows this totally unbalanced charade to take place.
Hydro power is not just vulnerable to rainfall variations. The capacity of water storage behind the dams is compromised by the amount of sedimentation occurring in the ‘lakes’. The greater the erosion up stream the shorter the productive life of the generators. This is recognised by the Chinese and the Americans.