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Not as much as you'd think. China's coal capacity factor is around 50% and dropping rapidly. Much of their coal is used in peaker plants.
by bryanlarsen 2y ago
Not as much as you'd think. China's coal capacity factor is around 50% and dropping rapidly. Much of their coal is used in peaker plants.
- MichaelNolan 2y agoYeah, for some reason people seem to assume that coal and natural gas all run at 95%+ capacity factors. I don’t have any data for China, but in the US coal’s CF was 42% and gas combined cycle was 58% in 2023. The EIA publishes monthly and yearly capacity factors by generating type. https://www.eia.gov/electricity/monthly/epm_table_grapher.php?t=table_6_07_a https://www.eia.gov/electricity/monthly/epm_table_grapher.ph...
- aaron695 2y ago[dead]