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by ben_w 490 days ago
China is rapidly ramping up everything, including renewables. Biggest CO2 source in China right now is coal, and PV is much cheaper than coal, so them getting cleaner isn't even a question of them playing nice or thinking long-term, it's fully compatible with their own immediate interests.
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Chinese wind project developers ordered 228.4GW of wind turbines in 2024 (2023 96.3 GW, +137%)

The average price was onshore with tower: 1894 Yuan/kW onshore without tower: 1513 Yuan/kW offshore with tower: 3307 Yuan/kW offshore without tower: 2698 Yuan/kW

source: https://wind.in-en.com/html/wind-2456186.shtml (chinese)

In 2024, 121GW of wind turbines were connected to the grid worldwide, 80GW of which in China, 41GW worldwide outside China. In 2023, China added 77 out of 112GW