China RE

[Ken]

Came across this on Carbon Brief https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-re ... -co2-rise/

"The growth in power generation from non-fossil sources set a new record, growing more than 500 terawatt hours (TWh) compared with 2023, which had already been a record year.

This is more than the total power generation of Germany in 2023. Solar power generation was responsible for half of the increase in clean power supply."

This is unbelievable. China has probably reached peak oil and CO2 although it is very difficult to judge untill after the event.

Compare that to "drill baby drill".
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Ken

[dan_b]

Yeah, the scale of the RE roll-out in China is absolutely mind-boggling.

[Mart]

Yeah I'm staggered every time, you'd think I'd get used to it.

Looking at the latest Gov stats which are for 2023, UK leccy consumption was 317TWh. So China's additional RE generation is about 1.5x UK's entire demand.

Be great if they do peak on coal this year (or 2024). Report says oil is up slightly for manufacturing products, but I think fuel for transportation may be down slightly, so has peaked. Last year PEV's (plug-in EV's) grew through the year, reaching 53% in December, and an annual figure of 48%.

I'm guessing the nay-sayers are going to have to start blaming India (instead of China) soon, whilst ignoring their low per capita emissions.

[Stinsy]

There are a lot of contradictions in China regarding renewables. I remember reading that they'd swapped the vast barges transporting coal from a mine to a power plant to battery-electric...

[dan_b]

Oh there's still a lot of coal being burned over there, but imagine how much hasn't been dug up and incinerated because of all these renewables that have been deployed? And their nuclear fleet too of course, they're building those at pace as well...

[Ken]

There are a lot of contradictions in China regarding renewables. I remember reading that they'd swapped the vast barges transporting coal from a mine to a power plant to battery-electric...

guess thats because oil they have to import but coal is theirs.

[Colin Deng]

More and more EV cars can be seen in China's small village
If i have enough money, i will be also buy a xiaomi car

[Adokforme]

A just released Rosie Barnes video on this very topic.
As I always find, most Engineering with Rosie video's are well worth the time spent viewing and this one was no different.
While several very good reasons are suggested for the amazing rate of growth in the renewable sector I agree they are striving to be independent in energy generation so rapidly reducing the need for imports of FF's, especially oil and gas.
Apart from the UK, I wonder just how many other countries are seemingly trying to follow suit and so able to benefit from all the advances made and manufacturing output they have to place orders from.

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