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Let's hope countries like China and India will put the same pressure on their industry. Otherwise we're just offloading work to them even further.
by deskr 2y ago
Let's hope countries like China and India will put the same pressure on their industry. Otherwise we're just offloading work to them even further.
- samarthr1 2y agoAtleast in india, we have good subsidies on residential solar, and need to bring as much capacity (blue,green,black, whatever) online for a country whose electricity demand is growing rapidly (most villages now have access to electricity)
- pjc50 2y agohttps://climatecooperation.cn/climate/china-issues-action-plan-for-energy-saving-and-carbon-reduction-2024-2025/ https://climatecooperation.cn/climate/china-issues-action-pl...
- dalyons 2y agoChina installed more wind and solar in 2023 than the rest of the world combined. They’re going to decarbonize well before the US.
- misja111 2y agoYou should tell the full story, it was also responsible for 95% of the world's new coal power: https://www.carbonbrief.org/china-responsible-for-95-of-new-coal-power-construction-in-2023-report-says/ https://www.carbonbrief.org/china-responsible-for-95-of-new-...
- cassepipe 2y agoIf you want the fullest story you might want to say that a lot of China's manufacturing energy needs was to supply the rest of the world
- ViewTrick1002 2y agoMostly replacing old inefficient plants with modern plants with better load following capacity. Essentially, ensuring the energy security while banking on renewables. The latest news is that China is likely to enter structural decline on their emissions since the renewable buildout exceeds the electrical demand growth. https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-chinas-emissions-set-to-fall-in-2024-after-record-growth-in-clean-energy/ https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-chinas-emissions-set-to...
- dalyons 2y agoyeah, they seem to be planning on using them like gas peaker plants (because they have little gas). For backup and filling in load gaps. If their renewables keep growing like they are today, the coal peakers will barely ever be used. They wouldn't make sense economically in the west, but they dont have to in china - the single state apparatus can socialize the cost without consequences. A dictatorship fears disruption, so they build them as a backup.
- h0l0cube 2y agoCapacity and usage are two different things. China are using their new coal stations as redundancy (and because of a weird disconnect between national and local governance which means each local government is incentivized to make this redundancy)