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0 pointslukan6d ago0 comments

Source needed, a quick search if mine showed very different numbers:

"China aims to reach 110 gigawatts (GWe) of nuclear capacity by 2030."

"China installed over 430 GW of renewables in 2025"

In other words china installed last year alone 5x the energy capacity in solar and wind, what the are planning to have in 2030

https://world-nuclear.org/information-library/country-profil...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renewable_energy_in_China

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SJC_Hacker6d ago· 2 in thread

110 GW at a 90% capacity factor vs 430 GW at maybe 20% capacity factor

lukanOP6d ago

430 GW a year on 20% (which it is not, as china has lots of desserts with no clouds) would still be a way bigger number than 110 GW that are planned to be reached in a few years.

SJC_Hacker6d ago

Yeah my bd, the capacity factor was mor like 15% for solar PV (utility scale), according to their own data

https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/energysource/china-bui...

Moldoteck5d ago

what has installed capacity to do with price? Check recent chinese solar parks prices and power. Normalize that power with chineze weather capacity factor. Do the same for their nuclear which is roughly 2.5bn/unit

China does expand ren more than nuclear but the reason is not economics but the capacity to scale (as well as inland ban)

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