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Asset classes
- Transmission Line80,968
- Power Plant32,429
- Substation / Converter7,614
- Oil & Gas Field7,055
- Coal / Uranium Mine5,382
- Pipeline4,951
- Cement Plant3,513
- Data Centre3,283
- Iron & Steel Plant1,293
- LNG Terminal1,198
- Grid Storage965
- Iron Ore Mine949
- Chemical Plant868
- Interconnector704
- Export Terminal519
- Refinery279
- Storage / Tank Farm38
- Oil / Commodity Contract19
- Hydrogen Project18
- Carbon Capture (CCS)16
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Cross-layer insight
China is still building coal
While the rest of the world retires coal, China keeps breaking ground — scrub the timeline and the new fleet appears.
China accounts for the great majority of coal capacity under construction worldwide. Narrow the power-plant layer to coal and the status filter to under-construction and proposed, and the pipeline of new plants is stark against a global trend running the other way.
Pair it with the timeline slider on the main map to watch the fleet bloom year by year — the single clearest picture of why global coal capacity is still rising despite retirements elsewhere.
Layers in this view
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SOURCE: Global Energy Monitor — Global Coal Plant Tracker (CC BY 4.0) · WRI Global Power Plant Database