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Comment on Last year China generated almost 3 times as much solar power as the EU did, and it's close to overtaking all OECD countries put together (whose combined population is 1.38 billion people)

allywilson@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

I’m curious how much of it they consumed though. I read recently the UK keeps on paying Wind farms (for example) to NOT supply the grid as they don’t need it at certain times, and it wasn’t going into batteries for later either. Just generated and…gone?

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Ibuthyr@lemmy.wtf ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
They pay the windfarms when too much power is generated for the grid to handle. The wind turbines are then throttled accordingly and the windfarm owners are reimbursed for the lost potential. At least that’s how it goes in Germany. It’s kind of an incentive to upgrade the power grid.

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LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Can be sold as well. I looked at this chart to get numbers, not sure about accuracy. Shows China made around 9.27 TWh and used 8.93 TWh. The G7 used about 7 TWh total.

countryeconomy.com/…/electricity-consumption

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