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Just look at the tariffs on solar and batteries from China. Or EVs from China. USA has been slow walking green tech for decades Republicans just turned it up a notch. Balcony solar was made legal in one state just last year.

Meanwhile China has enough solar and wind to power all of USA.

With batteries. That they installed. Required by law.

How did you miss the entire point?

They avoided the problem years ago. That’s why they don’t need the law anymore.

They need to lower the price of batteries again. So that is what China is doing again.

You’re concerned about a problem that has already been solved. Just not every government had a plan or asked China how China already solved it.

It always has been. Now it’s just more well known.

To install solar quicker and free up battery production for EVs. When you have enough EVs plugged in the EVs become the battery storage.

China scraps energy storage mandate for renewable energy plants
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These requirements have helped mitigate renewables curtailment in China. However, they have also increased operational costs for renewable energy projects, and many project owners have reported low utilization rates of their storage systems.

Since introduced in 2022, policy mandates requiring solar and wind energy projects to include energy storage systems have been crucial in the acceleration of storage deployment in China.

Corporate buyers are increasingly demanding renewable projects paired with battery storage

Funny because if I remember correctly China just removed that law. They had that requirement for years.

Nice to see other areas are getting started on curtailment problems from lack of planning.

Plenty of other examples are already up and running. Doesn’t take that much money to ask how they already solved the problem.

octopus.energy/…/as-wasted-wind-is-set-to-hit-650…

Wind curtailment in the UK has cost consumers over £1 billion so far in 2025, primarily due to payments made to wind farms to stop generating electricity when the grid cannot handle the supply. This issue is expected to escalate, potentially reaching £8 billion annually by 2030, as the infrastructure struggles to keep up with renewable energy production.

Much more interesting is what UK doesn’t do with that power. Someone should post that article about curtailment problems and how that jacks up people’s power bills.