China is leading the world in moving away from fossil fuels, and the rest of the globe – including the US – must now follow, the former US secretary of state John Kerry has told the Guardian
China is leading the world in moving away from fossil fuels, and the rest of the globe – including the US – must now follow, the former US secretary of state John Kerry has told the Guardian
Dude. China has 2,100+ coal power plants and opened like 50 last year alone. India is second with like 230 and the US is third with about 210. The US hasn’t even opened a new one since 2019.
Also the solar generation has dropped like 80% over the last 2 years in China. The CCP stopped subsidizing it, so it’s planned to only get worse. Most of the solar farms don’t even work, they just built them to get CCP mone and pay off the inspector because that’s how China works.
Do you have any more information on this as that’s a pretty significant allegation if true, with the sources I can find from a quick search show coal generation falling and solar production increasing year on year.
1195 plants vs. 290 in India and 195 in US - https://www.statista.com/statistics/859266/number-of-coal-power-plants-by-country/
50 new units this year (note: units not whole plants, a plant is a few units) - https://apnews.com/article/china-coal-solar-climate-carbon-emissions-242abe76eb69f5a362e977de74ff3254
China did end the rebate on solar - BUT, that’s an export tariff rebate, so it shouldn’t have affected local installations at all.
The last statement seems to be in minor contradiction with reality, China’s solar farms are doing exceedingly well, but suffer from being too far away from the areas that are using the power, the HVDC they’re using to move the power is quite efficient for the distance, but still suffers heavy losses.