Yes china has a lot of coal power. They also have a really fucking lot of solar. They are also currently in the process of installing twice as much as the whole rest of the world combined. The huge amount of renewables they’ve installed has lead to some analysis pointing to the potential that they have now reached peak CO2 output.
Whether the motivation is energy security, reducing costs or green policy it doesn’t matter. At the end of the day the results are the same.
Yes china has a lot of coal power. They also have a really fucking lot of solar. They are also currently in the process of installing twice as much as the whole rest of the world combined. The huge amount of renewables they’ve installed has lead to some analysis pointing to the potential that they have now reached peak CO2 output.
Whether the motivation is energy security, reducing costs or green policy it doesn’t matter. At the end of the day the results are the same.
https://globalenergymonitor.org/report/china-continues-to-lead-the-world-in-wind-and-solar-with-twice-as-much-capacity-under-construction-as-the-rest-of-the-world-combined/
https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-chinas-emissions-set-to-fall-in-2024-after-record-growth-in-clean-energy/
(now if they could just quit the whole genocide and repression of human rights that would be fab)