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Hard to reconcile headlines. Seems like there are frequent headlines like, "US will achieve 25% total demand using Solar/Wind" or "Germany had first day of 100
by FrustratedMonky 3y ago
Hard to reconcile headlines.
Seems like there are frequent headlines like, "US will achieve 25% total demand using Solar/Wind" or "Germany had first day of 100% of power from solar/wind".
Then turn around and see this headline "coal at record levels".
What gives?
Is it a disconnect in how each article or study chooses to calculate a %?
- ZeroGravitas 3y agoThe 25% total capacity (not demand) headline that you reference, was about the US targets for 2030 that China has already met and exceeded. Once you add nuclear and hydro it's more than 50%. > Non-fossil fuel power sources, such as wind and solar power, account for 50.9% of the country's total installed capacity, marking the early completion of a government target proposed in 2021, under which renewable capacity was planned to exceed fossil fuel capacity by 2025. https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/chinas-installed-non-fossil-fuel-electricity-capacity-exceeds-50-total-2023-06-12/ https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/chinas-installed-non... There's still lots of distance to go (capacity isn't generation, electricity isn't all energy etc.) but China is doing roughly as well as the USA. The main difference is whether they use lots of fossil methane, or lots of coal, but that's more geographic based on resource availability than anything else.