China’s Energy Crisis

... share of coal TPPs in China’s power generation, coal shortages—whether physical shortages, price hikes or undeveloped logistics channels meant to ensure timely supplies from domestic and international sources—have repeatedly resulted in power failures in the past. Over the nine months of 2021, coal production in China was increasing at a rate ( 3.7 per cent in year-on-year) slower than the energy generation at the nation’s TPPs as well as the consumption of such energy ( 11.9 per cent and 12.9 per cent respectively ) [ 1 ]. This came to be the case for a number of reasons: As part of the nation’s environmental policy and the overproduction ...