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 faciliti...