US energy usage is flat in real terms since 2000 despite skyrocketing population growth. In per capita terms, it's plummeting.
China builds hundreds of coal plants a year while they are exempt from scrutiny.
China builds hundreds of coal plants a year while they are exempt from scrutiny.
Most of the new Chinese coal plants mostly have have low capacity factors. They are being built as backups and peakers rather than baseload, designed (or retrofitted in the case of existing plants being upgraded) to be able to cycle up and down to balance wind and solar.
Many are idle so much that their owners have financial difficulty keeping them open, and the government has had to start paying them for their idle time so they won't go under.
Many are also built to replace existing plants that cannot not yet be replaced with renewables, so are at worst neutral on coal usage and are usually actually more efficient than the old plants so there is a reduction.
If this trend keeps going for a decade+, China might begin to approach US per-capita emissions.
For their population even without the renewables they are using far less than their share of any fair way to allocate whatever we decide we have to limit worldwide emissions to.