{"id":713649,"date":"2010-04-10T13:53:47","date_gmt":"2010-04-10T17:53:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/?p=8116"},"modified":"2010-04-10T13:53:47","modified_gmt":"2010-04-10T17:53:47","slug":"renewable-energy-now-growing-faster-than-coal-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/713649","title":{"rendered":"Renewable Energy Now Growing Faster than Coal in China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/dondomingo\/1792351811\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/go635254.s3.amazonaws.com\/cleantechnica\/files\/2010\/04\/China-now-adding-more-renewable-energy-than-coal-power-plants.jpg?resize=500%2C333\" alt=\"\" title=\"China now adding more renewable energy than coal power plants\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8129\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>New official stats from China show that renewable energy capacity is growing faster than coal now. <\/p>\n<p>By the end of 2010, hydro, nuclear and wind power should account for 26% of the country&#8217;s electricity generation, providing about 250 GW of capacity. &#8220;Thermal power&#8221;, largely coal-fired power stations, accounts for about 700 GW of capacity. However, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessgreen.com\/business-green\/news\/2261031\/chinese-government-renewables\">96 GW of the China&#8217;s 178 GW of new power capacity will be from renewables in 2010<\/a>, compared to 80 GW from thermal power. So, the tide may be changing. <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/2010\/04\/10\/renewable-energy-now-growing-faster-than-coal-in-china\/#more-8116\" class=\"more-link\">(more&#8230;)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New official stats from China show that renewable energy capacity is growing faster than coal now. By the end of 2010, hydro, nuclear and wind power should account for 26% of the country&#8217;s electricity generation, providing about 250 GW of capacity. &#8220;Thermal power&#8221;, largely coal-fired power stations, accounts for about 700 GW of capacity. However, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3223,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-713649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2ZEt","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3223"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=713649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713649\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=713649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=713649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=713649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}