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China Hits EV Target 10 Years Early, Still Hasn't Reached 2020 Nuclear Target

• dotcoma 2y ago
  > China is currently at 3,230 GW of generating capacity. Its current nuclear capacity is about 1.76% of that.
  • anovikov 2y ago
    Production of nuclear electricity is, to be fair, almost 5% of total.
    • xbmcuser 2y ago
      China is on pace to double its installed solar capacity approximately every 3 years. So should be around 3100+GW by 2030. It might even accelerate as the recent bess system auction pushed LCOE of solar+battery below coal. Where as they are adding 7-8 nuclear reactors or 7-8 gw capacity a year which is just a blip for their electricity consumption growth so the numbers will likely go down for nuclear. China seems to be doing most of its economic development like the west but at an extremely fast pace. It will be really interesting how fast they get off coal for electricity production and off oil for transport.
• metalman 2y ago
  china has built out the worlds largest high voltage transmission lines, so that loads and generating capacity can be in different time zones and I would not be surprised if they anounce new deals, expanding that network, to there niehbors to the west The just anounced ultra mega dam and generating project in tibet is going to be the biggest ever infrastructure project in the world.It will go a long way towards charging all those cars. Also anounced was a new natural gas pipeline from Russia, many mega units of somekind or another. They are working on next gen nuclear, but dont seem to be in any rush in a few years China will, on a cool, sunny, windy,day, be able to run on 100% renewables, and export power.