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0 pointsdefrost2y ago0 comments

The International Energy Agency (IEA) World Energy Outlook 2023 report outlines China has having an extensive expansion of both nuclear and renewables driving a decrease in China's coal use mid this decade.

It also asserts that China is behind 30% of all new nuclear power builds (under construction).

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/uncertainty-is-key-i...

https://www.iea.org/reports/world-energy-outlook-2023/execut...

(D/L full 355 page PDF) https://iea.blob.core.windows.net/assets/42b23c45-78bc-4482-...

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matthewdgreen2y ago· 2 in thread

This gives a picture of the current rate of deployment, may not include the current year which was even more extreme. https://illuminem.b-cdn.net/articlebody/661dc49b524b0dd9f1ad...

defrostOP2y ago

That provides nothing of substance without an attributed source for the raw data.

Taken at face value it shows 40TW or so coming online every four years or so, although the graph was created by an inummerate *.

* Here's a good question for you: why (on earth, why!!) would anyone put a continuous spline through additional power stations coming on line (very discrete, very burst data)?

If it's all the same to you I'll stick with the IEA assessment.

ViewTrick10022y ago

Agree the chart the author chose is awful.

An aot comparison is that China added more wind and solar the past nine months than all of its nuclear reactors under construction will provide. Yes, that includes capacity factor.

https://twitter.com/yo_ean/status/1718633487454904718

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