{"id":442493,"date":"2021-10-14T09:07:30","date_gmt":"2021-10-14T03:37:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=442493"},"modified":"2021-10-14T11:02:10","modified_gmt":"2021-10-14T05:32:10","slug":"chinas-power-crisis-will-go-global-if-renewables-dont-replace-coal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/chinas-power-crisis-will-go-global-if-renewables-dont-replace-coal\/","title":{"rendered":"China&#8217;s power crisis will go global if renewables don&#8217;t replace coal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A villain is emerging in China\u2019s efforts to rein in its energy prices: inefficient, power-hungry industry.<\/p>\n<p>With flooding in the coal hub of Shanxi province driving prices up to 1,508 yuan ($234) a metric ton even as the government tries to kickstart extra production, further measures are clearly needed to prevent more generators cutting off their turbines and causing blackouts through the cold of northern China\u2019s winter. That means a crackdown on the factories that still consume the lion\u2019s share of electricity. <\/p>\n<p>Industry makes up only 25% of grid demand in the U.S., but in China it\u2019s fully 59% of the total \u2014 more than all the country\u2019s homes, offices and retail stores put together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A villain is emerging in China\u2019s efforts to rein in its energy prices: inefficient, power-hungry industry. With flooding in the coal hub of Shanxi province driving prices up to 1,508 yuan ($234) a metric ton even as the government tries to kickstart extra production, further measures are clearly needed to prevent more generators cutting off their turbines and causing blackouts through the cold of northern China\u2019s winter. That means a crackdown on the factories that still consume the lion\u2019s share of electricity. Industry makes up only 25% of grid demand in the U.S., but in China it\u2019s fully 59% of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,130,232],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-442493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-power-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=442493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=442493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=442493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=442493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}