Chinese energy companies have been starting two coal power projects a week despite a recent government policy designed to tackle the countryâs overcapacity crisis, according to a new Greenpeace analysis. China currently has over 900,000MW of coal-fired capacity, the equivalent of about 1,300 large coal-fired units. But, due to the countryâs slowing power demand growth and rapid expansion of clean energy, demand for power generated from coal has been falling since 2013, rendering roughly 200,000-300,000MW of capacity redundant at 2015 demand levels.