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COALFIRE PLANTS
During the past few decades, there has been a major push to move away from coal power. Unfortunately, there are still a lot of countries that have a large number of coal power plants. The country with the most coal power plants, by far, is mainland China. Mainland China is estimated to have more than 1,100 coal power plants still active. Even though China does not share a lot of information with the outside world, satellite images have been used to support this conjecture. China has received a significant amount of pressure from the international community during the past five years to try to reduce the number of coal power plants in its country.
What Countries Have More Than 100 Coal Power Plants?
Even though China has the overwhelming majority of coal power plants in the world, there are several other countries that still have more than 100 coal power plants. India has the second most coal power plants in the world, with approximately 285 coal power plants still active. In addition, the United States has 240 coal power plants still active. The United States has worked hard to try to move away from coal power, but there are still some parts of the country that do not have access to another reliable source of energy. The number of coal power plants in the United States has been steadily dropping during the past few years.
Why Have Countries Moved Away From Coal Power?
There are a few reasons why countries have decided to move away from coal power. The biggest reason is that it is an incredibly filthy source of energy. Today, there is a lot of attention paid to the environment, and those people understand that we need to move away from coal power to protect the world. Furthermore, coal power plants are incredibly expensive to maintain. Many of them are very old, and it is difficult to find parts to replace them when they break. For all of these reasons, countries are trying to move away from coal as a source of power.
COALFIRE PLANTS IN OPERATION WORLDWIDE
China 1,142 198 128 43 494 365
India 282 33 25 8 411 40
United States 210 1 44 321
Japan 93 1 1 17 13
Indonesia 91 6 18 21 81
Russia 68 9 3 1 20 33
Germany 58 22 60
Poland 42 1 22 25
Turkey 34 6 1 6 109
Philippines 26 5 2 1 39 2
Vietnam 25 4 4 7 32
Czech Republic 25 3 7
South Korea 24 2 6 7
Kazakhstan 22 6 2 3 3
Taiwan 20 6 5
South Africa 18 3 1 1 15 2
Ukraine 18 1 3 6
Australia 18 1 14 15
Pakistan 15 5 3 1 28
Bulgaria 11 5 2
Thailand 10 1 1 7 1
Canada 10 2 13
Malaysia 8 5
North Korea 8 1
Chile 8 13 4
Romania 8 12 14
Brazil 7 2 1 7 2
Italy 7 10 11
Spain 7 1 21
Finland 7 2 10
France 6 1 13
Colombia 5 2 4
Mongolia 5 5 2 2 7
Bosnia and Herzegovina 5 3 3 6
Bangladesh 4 3 5 2 26
Morocco 4 2
Cambodia 4 1 2 5
Greece 4 2 5
Serbia 4 1 3 3
Denmark 4 9
Slovakia 4 1 3
Nigeria 3 1 1 8
Mexico 3 1 2
Myanmar 3 18
Netherlands 3 1 5
Zimbabwe 3 6 2 2 8
Dominican Republic 3 3
Hungary 3 6 4
Mauritius 3 1
United Kingdom 2 9 23
Argentina 2 1
Uzbekistan 2 1 1 1
Zambia 2 1 4
Guatemala 2 1 1
Senegal 2 3
Israel 2 1 1
Hong Kong 2 1
Botswana 2 2 5 6
Slovenia 2 2
North Macedonia 2 3
Madagascar 1 1
Syria 1
Sri Lanka 1 6
Honduras 1
Tajikistan 1 2
Laos 1 6 1 1
Kyrgyzstan 1 1 1
New Zealand 1 1
Ireland 1
Panama 1 1
Croatia 1 2
Moldova 1
Namibia 1 2
Montenegro 1 4
Brunei 1
Guadeloupe 1 1
Ethiopia 1
Egypt 4
DR Congo 1
Iran 1
Tanzania 2 2 5
Kenya 1 1 3
Sudan 1
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