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> The US has cheaper AND cleaner electricity than China

This is a nice read: https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/green/reports/2017/0...

Quote: "The nation is on track to overdeliver on the emissions reduction commitments it put forward under the Paris climate agreement"

And: "Compared with the Chinese coal fleet, even the best U.S. plants are running older, less efficient technologies."

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China has to clean up their coal power plants though, they have a lot of them and need the power they produce. They consume ~5x the coal that the US consumes:

https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=16271

Cleaner coal plants in China are still dirtier than natural gas plants in the US.

US Coal may be behind, but overall, the US is cleaner. US has more nuclear, natural gas, and more renewables (Hydro, Wind, Solar) than China.

There's a few way to slice the data.

China greenhouse gas emissions per capita are less than half the USA's.[1]

1. https://wri.org/blog/2014/11/6-graphs-explain-world%E2%80%99...

In 2016, China had 70 GW of installed solar power, compared to 40 GW in the US. They installed another 50 GW in 2017.

China has 320 GW of installed hydro power, compared to 80 in the US.

China had 160 GW of installed wind power in 2016, compared to 80 in the US.

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