China's Four-Year Energy Spree Has Eclipsed US Power Grid(www.bloomberg.com)

6 pointsby toomuchtodo3 hours ago2 comments

mekdoonggi2 hours ago
It's like that old saying with the tree in the forest. If you build a coal plant but it's never needed was it really that bad?
Seems like the plan is to adjust the rates for wind and solar, inducing demand, but then keep coal as a backup so that power is always cheap.
It will be interesting to see how consumption responds to variability of renewables. Grid batteries, production scaling with the sun, EV charging with the sun, etc.
- toomuchtodo2 hours ago
  Energy storage go brrr. Agree that most of these coal plants will never see material utilization. Almost have of total China electricity is coming from low carbon generation current state, last half won't take as long ("As of May 2024, “clean energy” generated a record-high 44% of China’s electricity, according to Carbon Brief analysis").
  China’s One Month Lithium Battery Energy Storage Installations Beat America’s One Whole Year - https://carboncredits.com/china-outpaces-u-s-in-lithium-batt... - January 26th, 2026
  China BESS installations in December surpass US 2025 total - https://source.benchmarkminerals.com/article/china-bess-inst... - January 7th, 2026
  Q&A: How China became the world’s leading market for energy storage - https://www.carbonbrief.org/qa-how-china-became-the-worlds-l... - January 23rd, 2025
  Global Energy Storage Market Records Biggest Jump Yet - https://about.bnef.com/insights/clean-energy/global-energy-s... - April 25th, 2024
  - mekdoonggian hour ago
    This is just the start too. Already China is pursuing global markets for these, but imagine selling the entirety of Africa, South America, Southeast Asia, India (to an extent) the combo of panels, EV's, and grid batteries.
    The sky is literally the limit.
    toomuchtodoan hour ago
    Ember Energy: China Cleantech Exports Data Explorer - https://ember-energy.org/data/china-cleantech-exports-data-e... (updated monthly)
toomuchtodo3 hours ago
https://archive.today/QJlym