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China Adds 160 Gigawatts in First 3 Quarters of 2024 – CleanTechnica

• nabla9 2y ago
  China is building new coal plants about 40 gigawatts new net capacity per year. The new plants that are designed to run only intermittently as a peaker plants to smooth out differences in solar supply and demand.
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• BrianHenryIE 2y ago
  I found the article lacking the context of the total electricity generation. Is this 1%, 10%?
  • defrost 2y ago
    IEA: Energy system of China https://www.iea.org/countries/china https://www.iea.org/countries/china (2022) There's total energy : https://www.iea.org/countries/china/energy-mix https://www.iea.org/countries/china/energy-mix and there's just electricity : https://www.iea.org/countries/china/electricity https://www.iea.org/countries/china/electricity Total 2022 electricity production in China: 8 950 643 GWh (Global #1) Total 2022 electricity production in USofA: 4 495 368 GWh (Global #2) Currently coal is the source of 62% of China's total electricity generation.
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