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"China is shoring up its position as the world leader in renewable power and
potentially outpacing its own ambitious energy targets, a report has found.
China is set to double its capacity and produce 1,200 gigawatts of energy
through wind and solar power by 2025, reaching its 2030 goal five years ahead
of time, according to the report by Global Energy Monitor, a San
Francisco-based NGO that tracks operating utility-scale wind and solar farms as
well as future projects in the country.
It says that as of the first quarter of the year, China’s utility-scale solar
capacity has reached 228GW, more than that of the rest of the world combined.
The installations are concentrated in the country’s north and north-west
provinces, such as Shanxi, Xinjiang and Hebei.
In addition, the group identified solar farms under construction that could add
another 379GW in prospective capacity, triple that of the US and nearly double
that of Europe.
China has also made huge strides in wind capacity: its combined onshore and
offshore capacity now surpasses 310GW, double its 2017 level and roughly
equivalent to the next top seven countries combined. With new projects in Inner
Mongolia, Xinjiang, Gansu and along coastal areas, China is on course to add
another 371GW before 2025, increasing the global wind fleet by nearly half.
“This new data provides unrivalled granularity about China’s jaw-dropping surge
in solar and wind capacity,” said Dorothy Mei, a project manager at Global
Energy Monitor. “As we closely monitor the implementation of prospective
projects, this detailed information becomes indispensable in navigating the
country’s energy landscape.”
The findings are in line with previous reports and government data released
this year, which predicted that China could easily surpass its target of
supplying a third of its power consumption through renewable sources by 2030.
China’s green energy drive is part of its effort to meet dual carbon goals set
out in 2020. As the world’s second largest economy, it is the biggest emitter
of greenhouse gases and accounts for half of the world’s coal consumption. The
Chinese president, Xi Jinping, pledged in 2020 to achieve peak CO2 emissions
before 2030 and carbon neutrality by 2060."
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