Fall in China’s fossil fuel power generation

• 8 hours ago (2025-12-16)
• David Flin

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China’s statistics bureau has announced that the country will see its power generation from fossil fuel power generation plants fall this year. It said that the data showed a 4.2 per cent year-on-year fall in November.

For the first 11 months of 2025, China’s fossil fuelled power generation, which largely comes from coal, was down by 0.7 per cent. If this trend continues, China would mark its first annual decline in thermal power output in a decade, despite rising electricity demand.

The fall in fossil fuel consumption for power generation has helped China cut its overall carbon emissions. China’s power sector makes up around 60 per cent of its emissions. The country plans for its overall carbon emissions to peak before 2030 and fall to net zero before 2060. Carbon Brief has reported that so far this year, carbon emissions have declined by about 2 per cent.