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Analysis: China’s clean energy pushes coal to record-low 53% share of power in May 2024 (www.carbonbrief.org)

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago (8 children)

Record low share but still record high(ish) quantity.

Even with everything China is impressively doing its not fast enough to keep up with current power demand growth (hopefully just short-term, decades).

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

So is coal power production going down, or are renewables growing faster?

Edit: looks like they're still adding coal capacity

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

IIRC China does not yet see an easy way to solve the whole "in the winter the sun shines less" problem... So here we are.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Nuclear is pretty good for base load, but they're building may of those too.

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