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> Apart from that tiny chinese fleet of 1000+ coal plants, havent noticed any plans for those, or rest of developing world like India. China in particular is b
by mschuster91 3y ago
> Apart from that tiny chinese fleet of 1000+ coal plants, havent noticed any plans for those, or rest of developing world like India.
China in particular is building out insane amounts of solar - hundreds of gigawatts a year [1]. India plans to pause new coal power plants and increase its capacity for solar [2] - Modi's government has it a bit easier than most Western countries, both due to the increasing authoritarianism and because the people see destructive weather events and their impact themselves.
The rest of the world is already going solar thanks to cheap Chinese panels. In most of Africa, there isn't much of a working phone or electricity grid anyway for historical reasons (poverty, colonialism, theft, construction challenges, political, ...) so there's quite a lot of international aid programs going on [3] - after all, Africa has 60% of the solar energy potential of this entire rock floating in space, but only 1% of the worldwide production.
[1] https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/chinas-installed-solar-power-capacity-rises-552-2023-2024-01-26/ https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/chinas-installed-sol...
[2] https://apnews.com/article/india-coal-pause-plan-climate-renewables-68b75402af663e4553434bc672fc9cda https://apnews.com/article/india-coal-pause-plan-climate-ren...
[3] https://www.un.org/africarenewal/magazine/january-2024/start-ups-powering-africa%E2%80%99s-solar-energy-ecosystem https://www.un.org/africarenewal/magazine/january-2024/start...