petersonra
Senior Member
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- Northern illinois
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- engineer
So it appears that Puerto Rico is not the only place with a serious power problem.
Reportedly the coal fired power plants in India only have about 4 days on average worth of coal available to them.
China apparently gets 70% of its power from coal fired plants and because of some kind of disagreement they're having with Australia which was their largest coal supplier, many of their coal fired power plants have run out of coal or are close to doing so and there are a lot of reports of blackouts around the country because there's not enough coal. Apparently in response to this problem the CCP is buying whatever coal it can wherever it can including trucking in coal from Mongolia. They have not yet lifted the ban on Australian coal but some Australian coal that had been impounded has been released.
It seems to me that most of the PV stuff is coming from China. You would think that if they were that desperate they would just keep it and plug it into their grid.
Reportedly the coal fired power plants in India only have about 4 days on average worth of coal available to them.
China apparently gets 70% of its power from coal fired plants and because of some kind of disagreement they're having with Australia which was their largest coal supplier, many of their coal fired power plants have run out of coal or are close to doing so and there are a lot of reports of blackouts around the country because there's not enough coal. Apparently in response to this problem the CCP is buying whatever coal it can wherever it can including trucking in coal from Mongolia. They have not yet lifted the ban on Australian coal but some Australian coal that had been impounded has been released.
It seems to me that most of the PV stuff is coming from China. You would think that if they were that desperate they would just keep it and plug it into their grid.