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.
Authors
- Linbo Han (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6369-413X)
- Peixue Xing (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9382-3131)
- Yong Geng (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2284-1375)
- Binbin Ju
- Lili Wang
- Zhujun Chen
- Wendong Wei
Institutions
- Shanghai Jiao Tong University (CN)
- Inner Mongolia University (CN)
- United Nations University – Maastricht Economic and Social Research Institute on Innovation and Technology (NL)
- Maastricht University (NL)
- Inner Mongolia Electric Power Survey & Design Institute (China) (CN)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Carbon Neutrality
- Published
- 2026-03-31
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s43979-026-00165-y
- Primary Topic
- Integrated Energy Systems Optimization
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00