The largest one of these major renewable farms getting construction started including UHV line to Guangdong. Will supply 36TWh of electricity per year to pearl river delta area.
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The largest one of these major renewable farms getting construction started including UHV line to Guangdong. Will supply 36TWh of electricity per year to pearl river delta area.
Wind and solar have reached 23.5% of power generation through October (huge jump vs 18.2% last year) and if we count renewable as a whole, it's close to 40%
At the current pace, coal will dip below 50% in power generation sometimes next year. And imo, it's going to probably get to close to 30% by 2030.
Most people cannot comprehend the scale of 332GW of newly installed wind/solar - that's roughly equivalent to building 90+ new nuclear power plants worth of capacity in 10 months.
This is really cool if they can do this on a large scale. No more concerns about where you get the carbon from.
Another just humongous green hydrogen project coming online. 134k ton by end of 2026 of capacity to be ready for production.
PowerChina by itself will install 35GW of wind power in 2026, just huge.
Turns out that reforestation efforts have measurably altered the national water cycle, with slightly more water available on the Tibetan Plateau and slightly less everywhere else. File it under interesting side effects. Not sure whether this is a good or bad thing tbh.
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David Fishman and Glenn Luk school Robin Brooks:
Glenn and Dave are both my friends. But I still must ask, why are we posting this? We don’t need “schooling” posts.
Anyhow, I have a thread here on China’s green energy model strategy, especially with respect to ammonia and methanol.
Oftentimes with economists, it turns out they are using the wrong data series, or wrong context, or wrong theory. They build these wonderfully complex, mathematically rigorous, internally consistent, models of human behavior which are completely detached from empirical reality. That does not mean they are stupid; in fact, I find many of them to be quite intelligent. It just means they are mistaken. Reality is a hard thing to measure precisely, and harder still to predict exactly. Many facts are only obvious in hindsight. Making mistakes does not necessarily reflect poorly on their intelligence.
Robin Brooks is not one such economist. He's just an idiot.