Chinese Coal Power Generation Rises Despite Renewables Jump

Despite growing renewable energy capacity installations, thermal power generation in China, which comes mostly from coal-fired power plants, rose by 1.9% between January and November from the same period a year earlier, Chinese statistics data showed on Monday. Thermal power generation rose to 5.74 trillion kilowatt-hours (kWh) from January to November, per data from China’s National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) cited by Reuters. The trend so far this year points to an increase in coal and overall thermal power generation even as China’s…