China is both the world leader in renewable energy and coal production, but installed solar and wind capacity are projected to surpass coal in the country for the first time in 2024, industry association China Electricity Council (CEC) said in its annual report, as Mining.com reported. According to the report, by the end of this […]
China’s central government has set a target of 1,200 gigawatts (GW) of utility-scale wind and solar capacity by 2030, but a new Global Energy Monitor (GEM) report says the country is set to double its current capacity and meet the goal five years early, a GEM press release said. Prospective projects that have already been […]
For many parts of Asia, May has been a hot month, with records already being broken in places like China and India, even before the official start of summer. Parts of eastern and southern China have been experiencing heat waves, which are expected to continue through June. The hot temperatures have been straining power grids […]
In a continuation of a string of hot weather in China that began in March, Shanghai had its hottest May day in more than a century Monday when the temperature spiked to 97 degrees Fahrenheit. The previous record of 96.26 degrees Fahrenheit — set first in 1876 and last in 2018 — was recorded by […]
A new analysis from Greenpeace has found that in just the first three months of this year, China has already approved about 20.45 gigawatts of coal projects, more than the country approved in all of 2021. In 2022, China saw a surge in coal project approvals, amounting to the approval of about two projects per […]
European solar companies disapprove of local content rules in the European Commission’s proposed Net Zero Industry Act that effectively limit Chinese imports, saying the rules will make the transition to clean energy more difficult. The rules require governments to reduce public funding and consumer subsidies for renewables projects if companies import a particular product from […]
What countries emit the most net carbon dioxide? Up until now, this question has been answered by calculating the emissions of each sector in a nation’s economy via a “bottom up” approach. However, a new paper published in Earth System Science Data March 7 pilots a “top down” approach by using NASA satellite data to […]
Despite warnings from scientists that the world must rapidly cut coal use in order to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels and avoid the worst impacts of the climate crisis, China approved more new coal plants in 2022 than at any point in the last seven years. That’s the conclusion of […]