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Global coal power

Drag the slider to explore coal capacity changes since 2000.

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Operating: 1,996,426 MW 209,566 MW 442,724 MW

Data courtesy of CoalSwarm. Interactive by Rosamund Pearce with data wrangling by Simon Evans for Carbon Brief. Licensed under Creative Commons.

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