China to Achieve its 2030 Installed Clean Energy Target in July 2024
China to Achieve its 2030 Installed Clean Energy Target in July 2024
Hell yeah, great news
That would probably explain a lot of this.
But communism doesn't work!!!
Incredible.
That's great news. But I read in the past that the majority of these clean energy installations are in the middle of the country where the land is dirt cheap and almost no one is living. Meaning that a lot of this energy is simply lost at the energy grid until it reaches actual users. Nevertheless this is still a big win, because of all the innovation it brought to the PV manufacturing process.
China is one of the few countries deploying UHV transmission lines to minimize the loss Brazil has a UHV grid too
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultra-high-voltage_electricity_transmission_in_China
Gansu, the poorest province in China, a province where "almost no one is living." Qinghai, Xinjiang... Same story. Together, they have almost 60 million people. Many of them are minorities with historically poor job prospects due to their distance from economic centers.
By building energy installations in the middle of the country, they're providing jobs to a group that's been left behind by the rapid industrialization of the country's East. Providing them with a surplus of electricity. Driving investment in the region. Moreover, this group of people is more than the population of New York and Texas... Combined.
How about you take your racism and your classism and shove it up your ass?
Hold off with your accusations and insults, I have never said anything like this, so don't put words in my mouth.
This is actually a problem for big countries with irregular population density, where it is the cheapest to build them, and as I said in my original post, I believe it is a big achievement.
And for the record I am not American.
China also has a more efficient energy transfer system than elsewhere in the world, so the loss is a lot less than you would expect, lower than, for example, it would be in US.
It will be less efficient, yes. But it is still a net positive. If it is cheaper to build it there, you can just add more power to compensate for that loss in efficiency.
It will not be a 100% loss. For reference: the power loss of the transmission in the US is on average 5%. Let’s say it is double that, it is still very little in the grand scheme.