If you look at the table by year, the change in solar from 2023 to 2024 is massive and accounts for almost 50% of the total change (most of the rest is hydro + wind, I was surprised nuclear did not increase much).
A lot of solar capacity has been installed over the last few years and has been coming online very recently. I could not tell from the table whether they were still adding coal though.
It is true that we are a long way from replacing coal even with gas.
Btw, i've seen a good explanation of why they are investing in clean energy and coal at the same time. Basically their main goal is energy independence, they don't want to depend on oil but they have a lot of coal.
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Date: 2025-09-12 04:33 am (UTC)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_sector_in_China
There's a chart there that show that energy production grows from all sources:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7c/Electricity_production_in_China.svg/2560px-Electricity_production_in_China.svg.png
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Date: 2025-09-12 06:10 pm (UTC)If you look at the table by year, the change in solar from 2023 to 2024 is massive and accounts for almost 50% of the total change (most of the rest is hydro + wind, I was surprised nuclear did not increase much).
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Date: 2025-09-12 10:52 pm (UTC)That's just one year. And they are still adding coal.
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Date: 2025-09-13 10:43 pm (UTC)It is true that we are a long way from replacing coal even with gas.
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Date: 2025-09-13 11:20 pm (UTC)Forget about replacing. It will take decades for "green" power to catch up with fossils.
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Date: 2025-09-13 11:35 pm (UTC)Yeah, it will take a while.
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