News Brief | December 2012
Worldwide 1.4 mn MW coal power plants getting ready
World Resources Institute (WRI) has just released a new assessment of the state of the coal power use around the world, finding that there are 1,199 new coal power plants in the works, totaling a bit over 1.4 million megawatts of capacity-or four times the capacity of all the coal-fired World Resources Institute . These plants are being developed by 483 different power companies in 59 different countries, with 76 per cent of them proposed for India and China. Remarkably enough, the United States ranks seventh in the world for new coal power plants on the table. There are now 36 of them proposed for the nation, with a combined capacity of 20 gigawatts.