Last I heard China was building a new coal fired power plant every week. May be it is down to 1 every 2 or 3 weeks now. But still, China has awful lot of coal power plants in operation. Pollution in Beijing is awful.
April 23, 2015
“China added 39 gigawatts of coal-fired capacity in 2014 — 3 gigawatts more than it added in 2013. That is equivalent to three 1,000 megawatt units every four weeks. At the peak, from 2005 through 2011, China added about two 600-megawatt coal plants a week, for 7 straight years. And, China is expected to add the equivalent of a new 600-megawatt plant every 10 days for the next 10 years. These new coal plants that China is constructing are more efficient and cleaner than their old coal-fired plants.”