[cipheredStones]

There isn't a single global account of electricity generation and expenditures. If your windmills are humming in Montana, and demand for electricity relatively nearby right now is already met, you have surplus energy to either use or store; China doesn't factor into it.

Maybe if you were allocating resources across the world's economies, it would be better to invest in solar panels in Shanghai than capture carbon in Billings, but that's not the actual situation.