{"id":59951,"date":"2021-10-18T05:14:22","date_gmt":"2021-10-18T10:14:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=59951"},"modified":"2021-10-18T05:14:22","modified_gmt":"2021-10-18T10:14:22","slug":"these-countries-are-the-most-reliant-on-coal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=59951","title":{"rendered":"These Countries Are The Most Reliant On Coal"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"ArticleFull_header__11o5_\">\n<h3 class=\"ArticleFull_title__2cUI6\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/energy\/these-countries-are-most-reliant-coal\">These Countries Are The Most Reliant On Coal<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"NodeContent_mainContent__38L44\">\n<div class=\"NodeContent_body__2clki NodeBody_container__1M6aJ\">\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statista.com\/topics\/1051\/coal\/\">Coal\u00a0<\/a>shortages are currently causing electricity supply problems in two major coal-using economies, India and China.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/B3-FE460_TESLAH_M_20191010160943.jpg?itok=YIu3abes\" data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/B3-FE460_TESLAH_M_20191010160943.jpg?itok=YIu3abes\" data-link-option=\"0\"><picture><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"inline-images image-style-inline-images\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_mobile\/public\/inline-images\/B3-FE460_TESLAH_M_20191010160943.jpg?itok=YIu3abes\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"21443673-0dc8-407e-ba4e-c067a1067019\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\" \/><\/picture><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statista.com\/chart\/25922\/coal-share-in-electricity-generation\/\">As Statista&#8217;s Katharina Buchholz notes<\/a>, shortages are happening because<strong>\u00a0economic activity is picking up<\/strong>\u00a0as coronavirus numbers have remained stable in most countries, while at the same time\u00a0<strong>coal production is sinking due to weather problems, and environmental concerns driving investment decisions.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"Advert_desktop__1J5vD Advert_tablet__3QEBr Advert_mobile__1rlLc Advert_placement__1I4yb Advert_align__N0_fw\">\n<aside id=\"in-content-video\" class=\"Advert_verticallySpaced__wnPy3\" data-google-query-id=\"CPj6odHc0_MCFcHdhwodLeYPOQ\">\n<div id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/21841313772,21778456762\/zerohedge\/in_content_video_0__container__\"><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ember-climate.org\/data\/global-electricity\/\">According to Ember,\u00a0<\/a>India still produces 70 percent of its electricity from coal, the sixth-highest share in the world. China, which has been touting its forays into renewable energy, is also still heavily banking on coal, at almost 61 percent of electricity created by the fossil fuel. Both countries are currently investing in several energy technologies \u2013 nuclear, coal and renewables \u2013 as their economies are expanding rapidly.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Infographic: The Countries Most Reliant on Coal | Statista\" href=\"https:\/\/www.statista.com\/chart\/25922\/coal-share-in-electricity-generation\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.statcdn.com\/Infographic\/images\/normal\/25922.jpeg\" alt=\"Infographic: The Countries Most Reliant on Coal | Statista\" width=\"501\" height=\"585\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>You will find more infographics at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statista.com\/chartoftheday\/\">Statista<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>According to the data,\u00a0<strong>Botswana was the country most reliant on coal in the world.\u00a0<\/strong>The Southern African country uses coal for electricity generation almost exclusively, while small Balkan republic Kosovo registers 95 percent coal use for its electricity production.<\/p>\n<p>Countries in Eastern and South-Eastern Europe feature heavily among the top 10 of countries dependent on coal, while\u00a0<strong>Mongolia and South Africa are other notables of global coal dependency.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These Countries Are The Most Reliant On Coal Coal\u00a0shortages are currently causing electricity supply problems in two major coal-using economies, India and China. As Statista&#8217;s Katharina Buchholz notes, shortages are happening because\u00a0economic activity is picking up\u00a0as coronavirus numbers have remained stable in most countries, while at the same time\u00a0coal production is sinking due to weather [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[147,31984,265,4318],"class_list":["post-59951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","category-environment","tag-coal","tag-coal-shortages","tag-energy-crisis","tag-zerohedge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59951"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59952,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59951\/revisions\/59952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}