[defrost]

In reality electricity in China will NOT "be provided fully by renewables".

    The country's current fleet stands at 56 reactors. China expects to build 6 to 8 new nuclear power plants each year for the foreseeable future and is projected to pass the U.S. in nuclear-generated electricity by 2030. In total, China intends to build a total of 150 new nuclear reactors between 2020 and 2035.

China has an impressive expansion of solar. That's a fact.

China is also expanding coal power stations (while closing older shitty coal stations) to provide base energy for its planned and ongoing expansion of both solar and nuclear.

Currently something of the order of 60% of the energy requirement of building solar (for local use and for global supply) in China comes directly from coal power.

I'm all for renewables, it's the sensible direction.

I'm also big on factual statements.

[anovikov]

Well ok, in 10-15 years all fossil and nuclear electricity in China will be a drop in the bucket. They will probably be commissioning a terawatt per year of solar by then, or more.