China Fires Up New Giant Coal Power Plant in Face of Calls for Cuts

China Fires Up New Giant Coal Power Plant in Face of Calls for Cuts
An excavator sifts through dunes of low-grade coal near a coal mine in Pingdingshan of Henan province, China, on Nov. 5, 2021. Aly Song/Reuters
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As the world seeks to phase down use of coal, China’s biggest coal-fired power plant has just finished construction and entered operation on Dec. 28.

The Shanghaimiao plant, located in the country’s top coal-producing region of Inner Mongolia, said on Tuesday that its first of four 1,000-megawatt units was online after passing a 168 hour period of trials.