Well done wind
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It's a screenshot, with no link, for France.
Utter nonsense.
China is building solar and wind, they're also building coal. They don't care, whatever does the job is what they build.
Utter nonsense.
China is building solar and wind, they're also building coal. They don't care, whatever does the job is what they build.
From 2015 to 2023, fossil fuel use in final energy across buildings, industry and transport in China fell by 1.7%. Use of electricity grew by 65%.
Battery storage investment in China rose 69% from H1 2024 to H1 2025, while grid investment rose 22%. China accounts for 31% of global clean energy investment.
Clean generation growth led by solar and wind met 84% of China’s electricity demand growth in 2024. In H1 2025 it exceeded demand growth, cutting fossil fuel use by 2%.
Projected Chinese solar manufacturing capacity in 2030 (1,255 GW) is 65% higher than global solar rollout in 2030 in the IEA’s Net Zero Roadmap (761 GW)
china-energy-transition-review
Battery storage investment in China rose 69% from H1 2024 to H1 2025, while grid investment rose 22%. China accounts for 31% of global clean energy investment.
Clean generation growth led by solar and wind met 84% of China’s electricity demand growth in 2024. In H1 2025 it exceeded demand growth, cutting fossil fuel use by 2%.
Projected Chinese solar manufacturing capacity in 2030 (1,255 GW) is 65% higher than global solar rollout in 2030 in the IEA’s Net Zero Roadmap (761 GW)
china-energy-transition-review
And then there's the next dam project that is far bigger than Three Gorges Dam:
China starts building world’s biggest hydropower dam
1.2tn yuan project has broken ground in Tibet, premier says, despite fears of downstream nations India and Bangladesh
www.theguardian.com
There is a theory that Chinese carbons emissions has just about peaked. Unless they get a sudden surge in demand, and have to install more coal power stations to keep up.
More generally, they tend to under promise and over deliver on these things.
Some very carefully cherry-picked deliberately misleading stats there!
84% of its GROWTH, not its usage
Cut by 2% last year, after years of meteoric rises
Among other hogwash
Those container ships don't have sails or solar panels.
We could make stuff here, if the net-zero crap hadn't made manufacturing unaffordable. We're just exporting our pollution, and more.
China's projected electricity use:
Also, India is of course catching up on China, in terms of development, but they could by-pass much of the coal use that China has seen, as invest in renewables etc.
I was just thinking how impressive that graph is, until I looked at the x-axis and saw that it's three quarters made-up. That decline in coal hasn't even begun yet, and the rises in the others have barely started.
I could plot a graph showing how I'll be a millionaire by this time next year, it doesn't mean it will happen.
I could plot a graph showing how I'll be a millionaire by this time next year, it doesn't mean it will happen.
