Correction: Mapping regional disparities in the global shift toward decarbonized power systems

Following publication of the original article [1], the authors reported that coal-fired capacity data for the Chinese mainland were omitted during the data synchronization process, resulting in several text and numerical corrections.The global coal-fired capacity has been revised from 847,000 MW to 1.9 million MW; Asia's coalfired capacity has been revised from 384.8 GW to 1,441 GW; the ranking of gas-fired capacity has been revised to second largest, and the ranking of hydropower capacity to third.Following data completion and recalculation, China's share of global coal-fired capacity has been corrected from 27.5% to 57.4%.Approximately 0.25% of the records in the dataset became text-formatted entries and were not converted back to numeric format during the original Excel-based analysis.This resulted in several updates to global totals reported in Section 4.1, including nuclear capacity revised from 373,000 MW to 380,000 MW, oil-fired capacity from 273,000 MW to 278,092 MW, bioenergy capacity from 136,000 MW to 142,589 MW, and geothermal capacity from 13,070 MW to 13,341 MW.Accordingly, the global share of gas-fired capacity attributed to Texas and Florida has been corrected from 12% to 7%, and Brazil's share of global bioenergy capacity has been corrected from 15% to 12%.Based on the above corrections, the continental affiliations of several subnational regions were further adjusted, resulting in slight numerical changes in Section 4.4.Asia's gas-fired capacity has been revised from 626.9 GW to 631.4 GW; Africa's gas-fired capacity from 107.9 GW to 111.2 GW; Europe's gas-fired capacity from 314 GW to 324 GW, coal-fired capacity from 129 GW to 124 GW, and bioenergy capacity from 41.3 GW to 47.2 GW; and North America's gas-fired capacity from 584.9 GW to 586.1 GW, coal-fired capacity from 242 GW to 230.6 GW, and geothermal capacity from 3.99 GW to 4.3 GW.

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Carbon Neutrality
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2026-03-31
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https://doi.org/10.1007/s43979-026-00165-y
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Integrated Energy Systems Optimization
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Correction: Mapping regional disparities in the global shift toward decarbonized power systems

Linbo Han, Peixue Xing, Yong Geng, Binbin Ju et al.
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Correction: Mapping regional disparities in the global shift toward decarbonized power systems

Linbo Han, Peixue Xing, Yong Geng, Binbin Ju, Lili Wang, Zhujun Chen, Wendong Wei
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Following publication of the original article [1], the authors reported that coal-fired capacity data for the Chinese mainland were omitted during the data synchronization process, resulting in several text and numerical corrections.The global coal-fired capacity has been revised from 847,000 MW to 1.9 million MW; Asia's coalfired capacity has been revised from 384.8 GW to 1,441 GW; the ranking of gas-fired capacity has been revised to second largest, and the ranking of hydropower capacity to third.Following data completion and recalculation, China's share of global coal-fired capacity has been corrected from 27.5% to 57.4%.Approximately 0.25% of the records in the dataset became text-formatted entries and were not converted back to numeric format during the original Excel-based analysis.This resulted in several updates to global totals reported in Section 4.1, including nuclear capacity revised from 373,000 MW to 380,000 MW, oil-fired capacity from 273,000 MW to 278,092 MW, bioenergy capacity from 136,000 MW to 142,589 MW, and geothermal capacity from 13,070 MW to 13,341 MW.Accordingly, the global share of gas-fired capacity attributed to Texas and Florida has been corrected from 12% to 7%, and Brazil's share of global bioenergy capacity has been corrected from 15% to 12%.Based on the above corrections, the continental affiliations of several subnational regions were further adjusted, resulting in slight numerical changes in Section 4.4.Asia's gas-fired capacity has been revised from 626.9 GW to 631.4 GW; Africa's gas-fired capacity from 107.9 GW to 111.2 GW; Europe's gas-fired capacity from 314 GW to 324 GW, coal-fired capacity from 129 GW to 124 GW, and bioenergy capacity from 41.3 GW to 47.2 GW; and North America's gas-fired capacity from 584.9 GW to 586.1 GW, coal-fired capacity from 242 GW to 230.6 GW, and geothermal capacity from 3.99 GW to 4.3 GW.

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