Since 2014 I’ve been tracking the natural experiment in China regarding the ability to scale nuclear generation vs renewables. My hypothesis was that the modularity and manufacturability of wind and solar especially meant that it would be much easier for them to scale up to massive sizes. That hypothesis was … [continued]
The natural experiment of renewables vs nuclear continues in China, and it continues to unfold in renewables’ favor.
China has done it again! It has beat expectations on the amount of wind power added in 2020, with a staggering 72 gigawatts of wind power added last year.
In the struggle to figure out how the world gets back to normal, only the EU is pursuing zero emissions goals. The road map to a clean future is right there in front of us, but few leaders are paying any attention to it.
China’s moratorium on building new coal-fired generating stations is about to expire, but that won’t lead to a boom in new coal plants. Analysts say the plummeting cost of renewables make further investment in coal power unprofitable.
BNEF says in its latest report that renewables are already winning on cost over all other electricity generators and will surpass them in the near future.
China’s power system continues to face numerous problems, including a national power market which in 2016 was oversupplied by 35%, and massive curtailment issues throughout the country’s northern regions, forcing renewable energy and the country’s significant coal industry to compete for dispatch.
A power sector transformation driven by renewables and improved plant cooling technology could help relieve China’s water demand issues. A new brief published by the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) and China Water Risk finds that scaling up renewable energy in China, and introducing improved plant cooling technologies for existing … [continued]
China can reach 86% renewables by 2050 while its economy grows sevenfold, according to a new government report
One of the more hilarious criticisms of renewable energy is that it costs too much. A new report has been released stating that potentially $500 billion a year in fossil fuel imports alone could be saved by the economies of China, the European Union, and the United States if they switched … [continued]
