🌿 Environment 1d ago · Chloé Farand

China’s industrial engine starts to break its fossil fuel habit

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China’s industrial engine starts to break its fossil fuel habit
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Chinese industry is beginning to shift from fossil fuels to clean electricity, with wind, solar and batteries progressively displacing coal, oil and gas across the industrial sectors that made the country the world’s factory and largest carbon emitter, a new analysis shows.



Clean electricity met all of China’s demand growth in 2025 and coal generation fell for the first time in a decade, even as electricity demand rose by 5%, the report found.



Despite a rebound in coal power generation in

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