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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] 13 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 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 3 months 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 3 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago

Yes, that edit.

Im not trying to be hard on renewables at all, just that in terms of greenhouse gases we are still dumping more and more of them into the air. Just the growth of our carbon farts is a bit slower.

The power demand growth is insane, and the cost might be too high.