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While China and India saw record lows in new permits, China remained an outlier by resuming construction on previously frozen projects. The United States led the world in plant closures, recording 17.6 GW of decommissioned capacity. The report highlights that meeting IPCC climate goals of 1.5°C to 2°C requires a rapid phase-out of coal, yet China's China Electricity Council has proposed increasing its coal capacity limit to 1,300 GW by 2030. In India, coal is facing stiff competition from cheaper solar and wind energy, while Vietnam has seen the fastest growth in coal capacity among countries with over 4 GW, though it is facing increasing public opposition and financial tightening from Japanese banks.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"gem-000027#summary","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},"key_insights":[{"text":"Global coal power growth indicators declined for the third consecutive year in 2018, with new construction capacity dropping 39% from 2017 and 84% from 2015.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"gem-000027#insight-1","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"The United States experienced the highest level of coal plant closures in 2018, with 17.6 GW of capacity shut down, despite efforts by the Trump administration to maintain older plants.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"gem-000027#insight-2","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"China is a global exception to the downward trend, having resumed construction on over 50 GW of previously frozen projects in 2018 and proposing a capacity limit increase to 1,300 GW by 2030.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"gem-000027#insight-3","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"India has seen a drastic reduction in new coal permits, with only 3 GW approved in 2018 compared to 39 GW in 2010, as solar and wind energy capacity additions now outpace coal.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"gem-000027#insight-4","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Vietnam has the fastest growth rate of coal capacity among countries with over 4 GW, adding 13 GW (a 75% increase) over five years, though it faces public opposition and reduced funding from Japanese banks.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"gem-000027#insight-5","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"To limit global warming to 1.5°C, the IPCC estimates that coal power production must be reduced by 70% by 2030 and completely eliminated by 2050.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"gem-000027#insight-6","date_modified":"2026-10-23"}],"climate_tags":["coal-fired power station","climate finance","solar energy","wind energy","carbon dioxide emissions","energy transition","stranded asset","air pollution"],"geography_discussed":["People's Republic of China","India","United States","Vietnam","European Union","United Kingdom","Germany","Japan","South Korea"],"frame_perspective":[],"analysis_type":["trend analysis","capacity monitoring"]},{"id":"gem-000066","url":"https://climateinsightsdirectory.org/document/gem-000066","title":"Boom-Bust-Coal-2024-Vietnamese","publisher":{"name":"Global Energy Monitor","organization":"global-energy-monitor"},"document_type":"report","language":"vi","date_published":null,"source_url":"https://globalenergymonitor.org/sites/default/files/migration/reports/Boom-Bust-Coal-2024-Vietnamese_11.pdf","generator":"Climate Insights Directory","generated_fields":["summary","key_insights","climate_tags","geography_discussed","analysis_type"],"summary":{"text":"This document is a Vietnamese translation of excerpts from the 'Boom & Burst Coal 2024' report by Global Energy Monitor and its partners. It analyzes global coal power trends in 2023, highlighting a dichotomy where new construction has hit a 9-year low outside China but an 8-year high within China. The report provides a detailed assessment of Vietnam's energy transition, focusing on the Power Development Plan VIII (PDP8) and the Just Energy Transition Partnership (JETP), while noting that global coal capacity reached an all-time high in 2023.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"gem-000066#summary","date_modified":"2026-08-17"},"key_insights":[{"text":"Global coal power capacity increased by 48.4 gigawatts (GW), or 2%, in 2023 to a total of 2,130 GW, with China accounting for two-thirds of these additions.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"gem-000066#insight-1","date_modified":"2026-08-17"},{"text":"There is a stark contrast in new coal construction: starts reached a 9-year low in countries outside China, while in China, they reached an 8-year high, contradicting President Xi Jinping's 2021 commitment to \"strictly control\" coal projects.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"gem-000066#insight-2","date_modified":"2026-08-17"},{"text":"Only 15% (317 GW) of the world's operating coal capacity currently has a decommissioning commitment aligned with the Paris Agreement's 1.5°C goal. To phase out operating capacity by 2040, an average of 126 GW must be decommissioned annually for the next 17 years.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"gem-000066#insight-3","date_modified":"2026-08-17"},{"text":"Vietnam's Power Development Plan VIII (PDP8) specifies that coal capacity will peak at 30.2 GW by 2030 and gradually decrease to 0 GW by 2050. 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The JETP Resource Mobilization Plan (RMP) seeks to reduce the number of coal projects and close inefficient plants, though specific decommissioning dates per plant are missing.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"gem-000066#insight-6","date_modified":"2026-08-17"},{"text":"In 2023, India proposed 11.4 GW of entirely new coal power, the highest amount since 2016, and some long-delayed projects were revived.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"gem-000066#insight-7","date_modified":"2026-08-17"}],"climate_tags":["coal phase-out","energy transition","power development plan viii","jetp","global coal capacity"],"geography_discussed":["People's Republic of China","India","European Union","United Kingdom","United States","Turkey","Indonesia","Pakistan","Bangladesh","Laos","Philippines","South Korea","Japan","Australia","Central Asia","Middle East and North Africa","sub-Saharan Africa","Latin America","Kazakhstan","Zimbabwe","Brazil"],"frame_perspective":[],"analysis_type":["Policy analysis","Capacity monitoring","Trend analysis"]}]}