China Will Have 1 Trillion Watts of Solar by the end of 2025

Next Big Future  July 3, 2024 The National Energy Administration (NEA) reports China added 217GW of solar power and 76GW of wind power in 2023 – to reach a total capacity of 1,050GW. They need 15 Tesla Megapack factories (150,000 per year) worth of fixed storage every year for the additional wind and solar. This will increase as China accelerates solar and wind installation to meet AI data center demand. By May 2024, China had installed 690GW of solar capacity and 460GW of wind, which made up 38% of its power generation capacity. China is averaging about 1 MWh/year (2.8kWh/day) […]