Even with everything China is impressively doing its not fast enough to keep up with current power demand growth (hopefully just short-term, decades).

[–] JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 13 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

So is coal power production going down, or are renewables growing faster?

Edit: looks like they're still adding coal capacity

[–] naturalgasbad@lemmy.ca 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

IIRC China does not yet see an easy way to solve the whole "in the winter the sun shines less" problem... So here we are.

[–] JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 4 points 11 months ago

Nuclear is pretty good for base load, but they're building may of those too.

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