{"id":210438,"date":"2025-04-03T05:02:53","date_gmt":"2025-04-03T10:02:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/new-coal-capacity-hit-20-year-low-in-2024-report"},"modified":"2025-04-03T05:02:53","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T10:02:53","slug":"new-coal-capacity-hit-20-year-low-in-2024-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/new-coal-capacity-hit-20-year-low-in-2024-report","title":{"rendered":"New coal capacity hit 20-year low in 2024: report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-coal-capacity-hit-20-year-low-in-2024-report.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The world added the smallest amount of new coal capacity in two decades last year, a report said Thursday, but use of the fossil fuel is still surging in China and India.<\/p>\n<p>Coal accounts for just over a third of global electricity production and phasing it out is fundamental to meeting climate change goals.<\/p>\n<p>Just 44 gigawatts (GW) of new <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/coal+power\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">coal power<\/a> capacity was produced globally last year, the lowest figure since 2004, according to the report by a group of energy-and environment-focused research organizations and NGOs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world added the smallest amount of new coal capacity in two decades last year, a report said Thursday, but use of the fossil fuel is still surging in China and India. Coal accounts for just over a third of global electricity production and phasing it out is fundamental to meeting climate change goals. Just [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-210438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210438\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}