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===Stranded assets=== Some coal-fired power stations could become [[stranded assets]], for example [[China Energy Investment]], the world's largest power company, risks losing half its capital.<ref name="CarbTrk2018" /> However, state-owned electricity utilities such as [[Eskom]] in South Africa, [[Perusahaan Listrik Negara]] in Indonesia, [[Sarawak Energy]] in Malaysia, [[Taipower]] in Taiwan, [[EGAT]] in Thailand, [[Vietnam Electricity]] and [[EΓAΕ]] in Turkey are building or planning new plants.<ref name="Urgewald 2018b">{{cite web|title=Regional Briefings for the 2018 Coal Plant Developers List|url=https://coalexit.org/sites/default/files/inline-files/Regional%20Briefings%20CPDL_10-04-2018_final.pdf |access-date=27 November 2018|publisher=Urgewald}}</ref> As of 2021 this may be helping to cause a [[carbon bubble]] which could cause financial instability if it bursts.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://cosmosmagazine.com/climate/stranded-fossil-fuel-assets-may-prompt-4-trillion-crisis|title='Stranded' fossil fuel assets may prompt {{US$|long=no|4 trillion}} crisis|website=[[Cosmos (Australian magazine)|Cosmos]] |date=4 June 2018 |access-date=2019-09-30}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Carrington|first=Damian|date=2021-09-08|title=How much of the world's oil needs to stay in the ground?|url=https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/sep/08/climate-crisis-fossil-fuels-ground|url-status=live|access-date=2021-09-10|website=The Guardian|language=en |archive-date=8 September 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210908153408/https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/sep/08/climate-crisis-fossil-fuels-ground}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Welsby|first1=Dan|last2=Price|first2=James |last3=Pye |first3=Steve|last4=Ekins|first4=Paul|date=2021-09-08|title=Unextractable fossil fuels in a 1.5 Β°C world|journal=Nature|language=en|volume=597|issue=7875|pages=230β234|doi=10.1038/s41586-021-03821-8 |pmid=34497394 |bibcode=2021Natur.597..230W|issn=1476-4687|doi-access=free}}</ref>
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