A minor one year increase in coal use for electricity production means little. It was caused by a small increase in natural gas prices. The fact is in America, coal is being replaced by natural gas in electric plants which produces less schmutz. Generally, natural gas prices will continue to decrease due to heavy fracking in America. So coal will continue to be replaced over the long term.
I'm glad you agreed your statement was incorrect
Also I'm not so sure it's small and only for one year. The price of natural gas will most likely continue to increase (and thereby increase the amount of coal powered electricity generation) as more US fracked gas is capable of being exported and fetching higher prices overseas than locally in the US.
Regarding your Chinese table, it has nothing to do with the 800 coal-fired plants. The table refers to Chinese domestic use of coal and other energy. Since China will build the 800 plants in other countries around the world, the coal used there will not appear in their domestic use tables but rather in the countries where the plants are located.
OK, and how many older and less efficient wood and coal fired energy use are these displacing? You keep fretting about the increases and always dismiss the corrosponding reductions, we've told you that many times in this and the poofed threads. Also all the countries where these are built are still part of the Paris agreement (I assume none of the 800 are built in the US
), so you have to look at all these individual country plans to see if there is a problem or not, and if there is a problem these countries will have to take countermeasures or lose support. So I think yelling "What about these 800 plants" is only populist propaganda and far from a serious concern because it's only looking at one aspect and not the total picture.
I can already predict your answer, "China is bamboozling the world and lying about their Coal use and CO2 emissions", my answer to that is that I don't believe that
Secondly I'm not Chinese, don't live there and don't have any influence there, so if you really believe they are crooked find a Chinese to talk to, and don't blame me for what you think they are doing wrong.