Last year, the global capacity of coal-fired power plants grew by 30 gigawatts (GW), meaning that the global generation of electricity from coal reached a new all-time high. This is according to the latest annual „Global Coal Exit List“ published by an NGO network. Since 2015, the total capacity of installed coal-fired power plants has grown by eleven percent to 2,126 GW. „Nine years after the Paris Agreement was signed, the production of thermal coal has reached a new high and the global coal-fired power plant fleet is still growing,“ criticized Heffa Schücking, Managing Director of the German environmental organization Urgewald.