A coal power plant near Nagpur, India. Yann Forget via Wikipedia The world added dozens of new coal power plants last year in what amounted to the biggest coal buildout in a decade, according to a new analysis. And yet, the amount of electricity generated by coal power plants globally declined. “In 2025, the world built more coal and used it less,” said Christine Shearer of Global Energy Monitor, which undertook the analysis. Coal capacity, a measure of how much electricity power plants can conceivably produce, rose by 3.5 percent last year, it found. And yet coal generation slipped by 0.6 percent as coal lost ground to wind and solar. China and India accounted for 95 percent of the coal capacity added in 2025, but in these countries coal is being displaced by renewable energy. Last year coal generation fell by 1.2 percent in China and by 2.9 percent in India as record additions of wind and solar nearly met the growth in demand.  The trend seen in China and India is not without precedent. The U.S.…