The shelving or cancelling of coal-fired power stations in India now outnumbers project completions by six to one.
Since 2010, two plants have been shelved or cancelled worldwide for every plant completed. In Europe, South Asia, Latin America, and Africa, the failure-to-completion rate is 4:1 or higher.
The amount of new coal-fired generating capacity in the proposal pipeline worldwide dropped from 1,401 GW in 2012 to 1,080 GW in 2014, a 23 percent decline.
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