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Deep dive | China’s power woes: Between a rock and the coalface

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The story of China’s ongoing power crunch – now two months in – feels like it starts in the third chapter: “And then the factories closed.”

Indeed, in mid-September, unanticipated electricity shortages hit key Chinese industrial hubs seemingly out of nowhere.

Power providers often informed fa...