China’s Solar Technology

Carbon neutrality by 2060? 🇨🇳🤔 Days after Xi Jinping committed China to achieving this goal, the country opened its largest solar power plant in Qinghai. 👇

Today China contributes 28% of global carbon emissions, the biggest emitter on Earth.

China had previously committed to peak in co2 emissions around 2030, but reaching carbon neutrality by 2060 needs a sharp increase in clean energy adoption.

☀️ Going solar?
China is the leading country for solar power, accounting for 1/3 of all global installed solar capacity.

☀️ Who’s building China’s solar future?
Longi Green Energy Technology is the world’s largest producer of solar wafers and top solar company by market value. Despite a pandemic, this year the company expects its production capacity to increase by 2/3 YoY.

☀️ Is “just solar” gonna be enough?
No. We need wind, electric vehicles, battery storage, green hydrogen and carbon capture technology.

💨 And China is acting. In September, country‘s first offshore wind power project, in the sea near Jiangsu, was connected to the grid.

🤓 Many more businesses will be a part of this change in the coming decade.

Still a long way to go, but seems like a good start. What’s your take? 🤓👇👇

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PS. Below solar farm is in Shanxi.

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[MVPLRJohnson]

TOTALLY missing the point of “production at need”. Solar is designed, small and lightweight, to be installed where the need or use is at; say on a house or a shop, on a school or store. NOT remotely as a municipal source! Line losses are too great for DC and the losses of conversion to AC and then running it great distances is horribly inefficient.

It’s supposed to go on the roof!

[lucat]

Ok what happens to solar panels when the very limited minerals needed to produce them are used up?

[HEROgamer]

The human greed for energy will never end, even if ruins their own planet..

[LastOsmane]

This moment when youre complaining about Atomic Energy and saying this is good to nature...

[whitegrizzly]

Is this true? And when they built it up?

[AccordGTR]

Yeah cut the forests now your cities are flooding and citizens paying higher prices for crops and vegetables