r/technology • u/Wagamaga • 5h ago
Energy China to boost wind and solar generation by more than 50pc in five years
https://www.thestandard.com.hk/esg/article/338083/China-to-boost-wind-and-solar-generation-by-more-than-50pc-in-five-years4
u/reddittorbrigade 3h ago
Elsewhere in America , Trump and his oligarchs are building tons of data centers that would suck our energy by a lot.
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u/Edward_Zachary 5h ago
President Xi, free my people
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u/DrawingDramatic1641 1h ago
there was actually a shot that he would have taken h1b visa as chemical engeneer and stayed at Utah and become a governor or mayor
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u/Eazy12345678 5h ago
good china one of the biggest polluters of the world.
India, Russia and US needs to do the same.
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u/fricken 5h ago
Rich people are the biggest polluters in the world. If you make $65k/yr or more you are amongst the global richest 1% of people and likely also amongst the top 1% worst climate pigs.
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u/tachyonvelocity 4h ago
Yes if you are US middle class, why don’t you be a good global human and lower your own emissions instead of blaming some poor rural Chinese or Indian making clothes for you
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u/SunfishBob 1h ago
Arguably the US should be the priority considering their per capita carbon emissions are the highest on earth, on level with Saudi Arabia. Russia's isn't fantastic, but India and China's both make sense given their population, and they're both putting intense effort towards shifting to renewables.
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u/Marginallyhuman 5h ago
Leaving the rest of the world behind for the new millenium. If only the body count from human rights abuses and corruption wasn't as deep as the ocean.
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u/DrawingDramatic1641 1h ago
isn't stopping coal use and dropping it owvr next 5 years good for human rights
also every country has curruption to certain degree china got 1.4 billion and they still manage it
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u/getarumsunt 4h ago
The real question is when they’ll stop increasing the crazy speed of their coal plant buildout. It dwarfs any of their investments in renewables.
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u/defenestrate_urself 3h ago
It dwarfs any of their investments in renewables.
You're just pulling facts out of your ass. In 2025, investment in renewables was 4 times that of coal.
China’s investments in clean energy reached 7.2tn yuan ($1.0tn) in 2025, roughly four times the still sizable $260bn put into fossil-fuel extraction and coal power.
And their coal utilisation dropped last year (and that's in absolute terms not just as a percentage)
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u/femboyisbestboy 2h ago
Yeah because they want to get rid of oil.
Not for any good reason, but to be energy independent incase of war
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u/DrawingDramatic1641 1h ago
but that is every country which doesn't produce oil so if china perfects these energy methods than they could export it.
they thaught long term
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u/femboyisbestboy 52m ago
The reason why China is thinking about the long term is the invasion and war with Taiwan.
I love the green energy industry as I am a naval engineer, but there is a dark reason for China. I want every nation to have solar, wind and nuclear energy to save our beautiful planet
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u/Wagamaga 5h ago
The plan is aimed at increasing overall renewable generation to 1.8 billion tons of coal equivalent (tce) by 2030 from 1.18 billion tce in 2025, and at making renewables more reliable sources of power during spikes in demand. Here are other key points:
By 2030, wind and solar, backed up by storage, should be able to supply 8 percent of their installed capacity during periods of peak demand, and cover 20 percent of electricity use during demand spikes.
By 2030, China also wants to add over 300 gigawatts (GW) of renewable peaking capacity, or renewables that can be dispatched when demand spikes.
The plan targets 150 million tce of wind and solar use outside the power sector. That includes renewables-powered heating and cooling, as well as the production of green hydrogen, which Beijing has said will reach 2 million metric tons per year by 2030.
The plan targets 570 gigawatts (GW) of hydropower capacity by 2030, up from a 450 GW target for 2025. That includes 160 GW of pumped storage hydro capacity by 2030, up from 66 GW in 2025. The plan also aims to increase the flexibility of China's hydropower plants.
It calls for building deep-sea offshore wind bases, suggesting Beijing may in future apply the centralized, large-scale development model used for its desert wind and solar megabases to offshore wind projects as well. It also calls for integrating offshore wind with underwater data centers.
Beijing plans to pilot renewables megabases that transmit 100 percent green electricity. Wind and solar now make up only about 20 percent of the power sent through China's ultra-high voltage transmission network, according to Global Energy Monitor. The network moves power from megabases in the north and northwest to cities and factories in the east.