Chinese solar is now expanding so fast that by the early 2030s, the country will generate more power from the sun than the amount of electricity the US will consume altogether, according to the International Energy Agency.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/18/climate/climate-china-solar-wind-dg
Over the course of the past year, Chinese companies shipped out solar equipment to a vast range of countries on the continent, according to an analysis of Chinese export data by Ember, an energy tracking group. Those exports added up to more than 15 gigawatts of solar capacity, which nearly doubles the estimated 20 gigawatts of capacity that was installed in 2023.
I'm personally hyped for the world developing using clean energy thanks to China.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/climate/africa-china-solar-panels.html
Chinese government officials last month showed off what they say will be the world’s largest solar farm when completed high on a Tibetan plateau. It will cover 610 square km, which is the size of Chicago.
China has been installing solar panels far faster than anywhere else in the world, and the investment is starting to pay off. China’s carbon emissions may have peaked well ahead of a government target of doing so before 2030.
Huawei unveils world’s first 100MW heavy-duty truck supercharging station targeting 45,000-ton annual carbon reduction.
Despite continued use of coal, China's energy landscape is rapidly decarbonizing. Renewables, especially solar, now account for over 80% of newly installed electricity-generating capacity, with costs plummeting below thermal power. While new coal plants are being built for local energy security, the clear long-term trend is a transition toward a cleaner, more efficient, and more electrified system.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2025/08/21/china-clean-renewable-energy-coal-plants-emissions/
Pakistan pulled off one of the fastest solar revolutions in the world by importing cheap panels from China.
What’s happening here undermines an increasingly popular narrative that clean energy is unaffordable, unwanted and can only succeed with large-scale government subsidies.
In July, China's total electricity consumption surpassed the 1-trillion-kilowatt-hours mark for the first time, reaching 1.02 trillion kilowatt-hours (kWh), an increase of 8.6 percent year-on-year.
At the same time, the share of electricity generated from renewable energies rose significantly, with wind, solar and biomass power generation increasing rapidly, bringing their share close to one-quarter of the total.
Amid record heat and power demand, China told its coal regions to cut output. Why? A historic clean-energy surge is finally delivering. Wind, solar, and batteries handled a 100-gigawatt demand spike. Grid-scale batteries discharged 20GW, and factory blackouts were nearly eliminated.
This summer proved that renewables can secure energy and curb coal use, a real-world stress test passed. 🎉
Oregon liberals, opposed to nuclear power in the 1970s, created a complex process for getting new energy projects approved.
It’s now being used to stall developments in wind and solar — with a 76-year-old activist leading the charge.
China's carbon dioxide emissions fell 2.7 percent in the first half of 2025 while U.S. emissions rose 4.2 percent, reversing a long-standing pattern in global climate pollution, according to Carbon Monitor, an international scientific project that provides near-real-time, daily CO2 estimates worldwide using multiple activity datasets and models.
Oregon liberals, opposed to nuclear power in the 1970s, created a complex process for getting new energy projects approved.
It’s now being used to stall developments in wind and solar — with a 76-year-old activist leading the charge.
While Trump pushes “drill, baby, drill,” China's green energy boom is bringing about the end of the fossil fuel age. In April alone, China installed 45.2GW, more solar capacity than Australia’s entire history. It now produces half the world’s solar, wind, and EVs.
Clean tech made up 10% of China’s GDP in 2024, surpassing real estate. Exports already offset global emissions by 1% this year. Meanwhile, CO2 emissions fell 1.6% in Q1 2025.
China is strategically reducing its oil dependence to counter potential disruption by the US. It is heavily investing in renewable energy (wind, solar) and electric vehicles, becoming a global leader in both. This multi-pronged approach aims to secure its energy supply and lessen vulnerability to external pressures.
Clean energy will provide countries with sovereignty along with saving the environment.
#foodsecurity #farming#UVA#Virginia #charlottesville #cville#USDA #renewableenergy #humanties #piedmontblues #datajustice #blackculture #blackhistory #cleanenergy
Farming, food security, and farm labor are just part of the list of issues addressed by UVA programs. The impact is huge for Charlottesville, but also for Virginia and the nation.
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#foodsecurity #farming#UVA#Virginia #charlottesville #cville#USDA #renewableenergy #humanties #piedmontblues #datajustice #blackculture #blackhistory #cleanenergy
Farming, food security, and farm labor are just part of the list of issues addressed by UVA programs. The impact is huge for Charlottesville, but also for Virginia and the nation.
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“Ostensibly looking for homes that were growing illegal amounts of cannabis, SMUD analysts have admitted that such ‘high’ power usage could come from houses using air conditioning or heat pumps”
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/07/when-your-power-meter-becomes-tool-mass-surveillance
#surveillance #cleanenergy #cannabis
China battery exports were 144GWh in the first 5 months of 2025 (of which only 3.4 GWh were destined for the USA). So we are probably looking at exports of 350GWh in 2025.
Year on year growth was 436%. It won't take many of those before they are exporting 1TWh / year.
A steady price of < USD 40/kWh by 2030 is looking pretty plausible right now.
I think it is clear now that no governments will prioritise combatting climate change over any other policy driver (except maybe DEI). The 2010's were an aberration.
All we can really hope for now is that China's quest for manufacturing dominance along with their, and the Global South's desire for fast electrification and energy independence will align to serendipitously do something usefull for the climate.
It follows that undoing clean energy investment will disadvantage those districts to a similar degree.
Will the story be told more effectively this time?
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