Comment on China renewables capacity additions soared in 2023, growing more than four times faster than the G7

dumnezero@piefed.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• Allero@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Yeah I don’t think it’s useful to list GW capacities, as the country consumes and produces more power overall.

  A more useful metric would be the percentage of renewables in the national grid.

  Still, China is fairly impressive in that respect.

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  • houseofleft@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Sharing this here as it’s exactly what you mention!

    ourworldindata.org/…/carbon-intensity-electricity

    CO2g per KWh is the standard metric for “how much a countries electricity pollutes”.

    Tldr China’s is 580 and improving. USA is 370 and improving at a similar rate (this obviously might change under the current administration).

    Others worth pointing too is Sweden (40gCO2) which is a good marker of what’s possible for a wealthy country and India (700gCO2) because as a country with a lot of economic development and recent historic poverty, it shows why China’s improvement is worth noting.

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    • dumnezero@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      https://www.carbonbrief.org/chinas-construction-of-new-coal-power-plants-reached-10-year-high-in-2024/

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      • Shezzagrad@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        What a weird graph, doesn’t tell us anything, why not an energy mix graph to show coal increasing in the energy mix? Oh it isn’t? These coal factory’s are made to shut older ones? Ohhh you’re not very smart

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      • ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        “establish [new systems] before breaking [old ones]” (先立后破)."

        Compared to the whole “move fast and break things” mantra thats migrated to the US government, this seems like a wise move.

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    • JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Looks like China’s is coming down too, but still a little over the worldwide average.

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