China breaks more records with surge in solar and wind power

12 testing22321 3 6/28/2025, 1:44:26 AM theguardian.com ↗

Comments (3)

melling · 7h ago
“Between January and May, China added 198 GW of solar and 46 GW of wind, enough to generate as much electricity as Indonesia or Turkey”

That is impressive.

The US is abandoning some of our clean energy goals.

Both public and private: https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2025-corporate-climate-br...

jfengel · 6h ago
China wants to be in the future. America wants to be in the past. Its current political slogan is explicitly backward-looking.

I genuinely don't know which approach will pay off, but I've got some guesses.

msgodel · 7h ago
I'd imagine solar panels are about 25-50% cheaper over there than here between tariffs and shipping. (solar tariffs on China have been in place for at least ten years now AFAIK, they're separate from the other tariff stuff that's been going on.)

If you like the independence/flexibility solar is marginally interesting. There it's probably a no-brainer.