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"Out of the rolling yellow dunes of the Kubuqi desert arises what appears to be
an oasis, shimmering blue beneath the northern China sky.
Row after row of hundreds of solar panels cover this otherwise barren stretch
of Inner Mongolia, about 500 kilometers (311 miles) inland from Beijing.
They’re the centerpiece of a clean energy project the size of 20 Central Parks
that provides enough electricity for 1.1 million homes.
The mammoth site is just one small piece of President Xi Jinping’s plan to
deliver the largest ever deployment of man-made power capacity. By the end of
this decade, China aims to build the equivalent of 225 more of these massive
renewables bases across vast swathes of the country’s interior.
It’s a campaign that promises an upheaval across the energy sector: curbing
China’s demand for fossil fuels, trimming its reliance on energy imports and
steering the world’s biggest polluter toward a feasible path to zero out its
greenhouse gas emissions.
Once complete, the renewables bases will total 455 gigawatts of wind turbines
and solar panels. That’s more clean energy generation capacity than is
currently available in any nation outside China, and almost the size of the
entire power network — including coal plants and nuclear reactors — in India,
the world’s third-largest system.
“It’s mind-blowing,” said Cosimo Ries, a Shanghai-based energy analyst with
Trivium China. “There’s nothing in history you can benchmark this against.”"
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Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
