Visualizing Coal in the 21st Century, in One Map

Yale e360
Jun 8, 2018, 2:03 pm232 pts
The world has doubled its coal-fired power capacity since 2000, largely due to rapid growth in China and India. There are now 2,000 gigawatts of coal-fired generating capacity, with another 200 GW currently being built and 450 GW planned, according to a new interactive map that visualizes the global coal trends…

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