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How China is driving global green shift in electric power sector https://reneweconomy.com.au/china-driving-global-green-shift-electric-power-sector-91284/ http
by wombatmobile 5y ago
How China is driving global green shift in electric power sector
https://reneweconomy.com.au/china-driving-global-green-shift-electric-power-sector-91284/ https://reneweconomy.com.au/china-driving-global-green-shift...
The question arises: which country (or countries) has been driving this global green shift in electric power generation? The answer is clear as soon as we look at the comparable charts for China. We carried these charts in the earlier blog posting, but reproduce them here for ease of comparison.
Chart 3 reveals that the proportion of China’s electric power capacity sourced from WWS rose from 20% in 2007 to 35% in 2017 (1H) – or a 15% swing in a decade.
And the shift is of exactly the same form as the global shift revealed in the IEA data, making it an inescapable conclusion that China is the driver of the world trend.