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China's target is 2060.

• logifail 11mo ago
  > China's target is 2060 "China plans to keep building coal-fired power plants through 2027 in regions where they are needed to meet peak power demand or stabilise the grid, according to government guidelines" https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/climate-energy/china-keep-building-coal-plants-through-2027-state-planner-says-2025-04-14/ https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/climate-energy/china-...
  • flir 11mo ago
    And yet they used less coal in 2024 than they did in 2023. Maybe it's just an economic downturn. But... https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/26/china-breaks-more-records-with-massive-build-up-of-wind-and-solar-power https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/26/china-breaks-m... I just don't buy that carbon neutrality necessarily results in expensive electricity.
• philjohn 11mo ago
  China doesn't have one side of the political spectrum trying to shutter any talk of renewables, they're just installing them at breakneck speed.
  • naIak 11mo ago
    We just need to execute the side of the political spectrum that we don't like. That way society will really get ahead.