From NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

By Paul Homewood

h/t Ian Magness

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/29/china-wind-solar-power-global-renewable-energy-leader

The Guardian don’t mention that China’s target was a very easy one.

Even now, solar & wind’s share of total electricity in China is under half that of the UK:

BP Energy Review

Solar & wind capacity last year was 759GW in China, and according to the Guardian they have a target of 1200GW by 2030, so even then their share of generation in China will still be well below ours.

Significantly is this comment by the Guardian:

It says that as of the first quarter of the year, China’s utility-scale solar capacity has reached 228GW, more than that of the rest of the world combined.

China, of course, accounts for a third of the world’s electricity generation, so everything it does is automatically on a much larger scale. Nevertheless the Guardian’s claim suggests that the rest of the world is lagging well behind, rather than China storming ahead. Probably because most countries know that solar power is not the answer to large scale generation.