As Investors and Insurers Back Away, the Economics of
2020year3month10day · Coal power plants are still being built in some fast-growing economies in Asia. China, India, Indonesia, and Malaysia headed the list last year. But even there, the ardor is fading. Take China. It built a reported 43,000 megawatts of new coal power-plant capacity last year, almost twice as much as the rest of the world put together.