2008-04-10
India's Ultra-Mega Coal-Burning Plant Complex. By Andrew C. Revkin, NYTimes, April 10, 2008. "India's Tata Power group just gained important financial backing from the International Finance Corporation, a branch of the World Bank, for its planned $4 billion, 4-billion watt 'Ultra Mega' coal-burning power plant complex in Gujarat state. The I.F.C., along with the Asian Development Bank, Korea, and other backers, sees the need to bring electricity to one of the world's poorest regions as more pressing than limiting [greenhouse gases]... The plants will emit about 23 million tons of [CO2] a year... using technology that is 40% more efficient... than the average for India. The decision powerfully illustrates one of the most inconvenient facets of the world's intertwined climate and energy challenges -- that more than two billion people still lack any viable energy choices, let alone green ones."
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