Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of how many new coal-fired plants are planned by China and India over the next decade.
Table 7.2 of the International Energy Agency’s 2015 World Energy Outlook projects the following demand for coal under the Agency’s New Policy Scenario:
| 2013 | 2025 |
China | 2,932 | 2,957 |
India | 488 | 812 |
World | 5,613 | 5,874 |
Figures in Mtce – million tonnes of coal equivalent.