Why China Generates Too Much Power

[Beijingwalker]

Why China Generates Too Much Power​

Bloomberg Originals

Imagine building a country's capacity in a single year, that's essentially what China did in 2025. It added enough power to match India's entire electricity system.

 

[Beijingwalker]

Most energy China added in recent year is clean and renewable energy

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20261106-china-is-finally-slowing-its-ballooning-emissions

 

[Beijingwalker]

Imagine building a country's capacity in a single year, that's essentially what China did in 2025. It added enough power to match India's entire electricity system.

Mind blowing, India is the world most populous nation whose big population is supposed to consume considerable amount of electricity.

 

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[Beijingwalker]

ChatGPT agrees that Electricity consumption is a better way to measure overall economy than reported GDP

 

[Beijingwalker]

Xinjiang's energy storage capacity tops 25 GW, ranks first in China​

Nov 10, 2026, 10:32:45 AM

Xinjiang's installed capacity of energy storage reached 25.12 GW at the end of September, up 90.6% from a year earlier, placing it first among China's provincial-level regions, the National Energy Administration said on Friday.

Image by Martina Markosyan.​

The Xinjiang power grid added 4.96 GW of new energy storage capacity in the first nine months of 2026, according to data from State Grid Xinjiang Electric Power.

The facilities charged 10.71 billion kWh of electricity and discharged 9 billion kWh from January to September, with utilisation reaching 1,163 hours.

Large-scale storage helps balance fluctuations in wind and solar generation by storing surplus electricity and releasing it when needed, improving the grid's ability to absorb renewable power.

Xinjiang, a major energy production base in northwest China, has developed a diversified storage industry covering lithium iron phosphate batteries, vanadium flow batteries, sodium-ion batteries, flywheels, supercapacitors and compressed-air energy storage.

https://renewablesnow.com/news/xinjiangs-energy-storage-capacity-tops-25-gw-ranks-first-in-china-1304636/

 

[Beijingwalker]

US and rest of world must follow China’s lead on green energy, says John Kerry​

Former US secretary of state says most nations are ‘stumbling along’ while Beijing has ‘hugely accelerated’

Sheep grazing beneath solar panels at one of the world's largest solar bases, in Hainan Tibetan autonomous prefecture, Qinghai province, China. Photograph: Go Nakamura/Reuters

China is leading the world in moving away from fossil fuels, and the rest of the globe – including the US – must now follow, the former US secretary of state John Kerry has told the Guardian, as Cop watchers wonder exactly how China is going to approach this year’s climate summit.

As Cop31 opens – this year the climate conference is in Turkey – there is plenty of speculation about whether China will finally step into the leadership role that it has long avoided. In its latest “five-year plan” adopted in March 2026, China for the first time pledged to “actively participate in and lead global climate governance”. Cop31 could provide the first indications Beijing is ready to put that rhetoric into action, something it has historically been reluctant to do.

Green energy is a vital component of the export engine that has kept China’s sluggish post-pandemic economy on track. The success of its exports stands in contrast to its failure to significantly boost domestic general consumption, a structural weakness that has persistently vexed leaders.

In 2025, clean-tech exports surpassed $220bn, and they should grow again this year; the world’s largest emitter is now the world’s leading supplier of clean energy technology. China accounts for about 85% of solar and 80% of lithium-ion battery supply chain production capacity, and in 2025, nearly 75% of electric cars were manufactured there.

Electric cars imported from China at Southampton docks, UK. Photograph: Filby Photography/Alamy

Smart moves now by China would position it as a linchpin in a future electrostate world order, persuade rivals to cooperate, and solidify its influence in the global south.

Meanwhile other countries, including the US under Donald Trump, have fallen badly behind. Kerry said they would lose out economically – as well as putting the climate in further danger – unless they, too, embraced low-carbon power and rapid electrification. “The only country that has hugely accelerated is China. The rest of the world is stumbling along while Mother Nature is sending us more powerful signals every week, every day,” he said.

“[China] realised suddenly they had way too much dependency on oil and gas from other places, and they decided they needed to be independent. Other countries, since the war in Iran, and since the strait of Hormuz has been interrupted, have made a similar decision, and they’re moving independently. There’s been a massive uptick in deployment of renewables. Thank you, Donald Trump.”

For autocratic states without free and fair elections, seeing the economic benefits reaped by China would be the spur to adopt low-carbon growth, he added.

“They’ll see where the market is going, and they will recognise where the cheaper alternatives are. Even they can read a spreadsheet, and understand where costs are exorbitant [in fossil fuels], and where you have a better deal,” Kerry said. “Right now, renewables together with storage, together with some transitional gas, is cheaper and more effective, than just going with fossil fuels.”

He added: “The marketplace has made its decision and globally is moving to electrons, and electrostate status. People are going to electricity and they’re going to try to do that as clean as humanly possible. That’s the choice that I see being implemented in many different places. It is unstoppable.”

John Kerry, then special envoy for climate, speaking in Washington in 2024. Photograph: Jacquelyn Martin/AP

China has already said it wants Cop31 to discuss the free flow of green technology against a backdrop of “intensifying” geopolitical conflicts – widely seen as a reference to US and EU tariffs on items such as Chinese electric vehicles and solar products.

Li Shuo from the Asia Society Policy Institute (ASPI) puts it this way: “In a world where climate action was once seen as a constraint on growth but is now increasingly a driver of it, China faces a singular question: will it step into a leadership role not out of obligation, but out of self-interest?”

China as a ‘doer and go-getter’​

The summit’s presidency has promised this Cop will be one of “implementation and acceleration” – and when it comes to the green transition, nowhere has implemented or accelerated quite like China. As a result, emissions have been in a “flat or falling” trend since March 2024, analysis for Carbon Brief shows.

Beijing sees the energy transition as “central to economic modernisation and energy security, with significant implications for international influence”, said Kevin Tu from the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies. The wars in Ukraine and the Middle East and their effect on oil and gas supplies have only hardened that stance.

The conflicts have also highlighted the geopolitical implications of a planetary shift to green energy. In the fossil fuel era, the designation of the US dollar as the global trading currency for oil gave Washington “what has been termed the exorbitant privilege of being the global lender of last resort”, said Isabel Hilton, the founder of the specialist environment outlet China Dialogue.

“Without that, the US position in the world looks weaker, and if you add China’s dominance of the supply of clean technologies and the supply chains that produce them, US dominance looks more vulnerable still.”

Meanwhile, President Xi Jinping describes China as a “doer and go-getter working for the cause of global development” and state media frequently showcase Chinese renewable projects in countries ranging from Indonesia to Pakistan and Kenya. The value of the green energy deals in China’s belt and road initiative in the first half of 2026 has already surpassed the total for the whole of 2025, a recent analysis showed.

Those countries could be useful allies if China can get the subject of tariffs into the talks. “China is likely to find support from Brazil, India, South Africa and other developing countries concerned about the costs and market-access effects of climate-related trade measures,” said Tu.

The need for trust​

China has generally held back from policy ambition or agenda-setting at forums such as Cop. Its attitude to the plans to set a global target for electrification has been ambivalent, even though it would easily hit it, according to ASPI’s Kate Logan. Partly, China has an aversion to prescriptive outside targets, but it is also trying to navigate the divergent interests of its global south partners.

Yixian Sun, a professor of sustainability governance at the University of Bath, said: “I still think there is a mismatch between Chinese policymakers’ views on the role that China can play in global climate governance and international expectations on the influence that China should exert.”

If the world wants China to play a leadership role, the environment needs to change, and more trust extended, he says. “They have to be ready to accept China’s leadership, and I don’t think this is the case, especially for global north countries”.

Analysts will watch China’s actions around climate finance commitments and support for a “just transition” – a framework designed to secure workers’ rights and livelihoods in the move away from fossil fuels.

They will also be looking for signals Beijing will bid for Cop33 in 2028; officials are said to be trying to decide if hosting would be beneficial.

For now, said Logan, “China would be happy with a Cop that doesn’t necessarily produce anything monumental, but comes out with a relatively cooperative outcome … so no major drama.”

US and rest of world must follow China’s lead on green energy, says John Kerry

Former US secretary of state says most nations are ‘stumbling along’ while Beijing has ‘hugely accelerated’

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[Mero]

Is China going to be smart by expanding influence and hegemony during years when Democrats are in the white house. Do the Green Yuan. Support leftists in Latin America to defeat Monroe Doctine. If there is push back, invade Taiwan. Don't start wars without playing the victim in Democrat years, focus on expansion of electric power economic power and political control. Then in Republican control of white house years, green light wars and chaos, to hurt maga, so then China can have peace and security. Make it known in Democrat years that pushback from US would result in Green Yuan, Gold Yuan, invasion of Taiwan.

Russia is doing things backwards. Do not follow praise of Sachs, musk, trump. Do not outsource war with West to Russia.

When China does things in selfinterest China makes smart decisions, do not outsource your plans and schedule to foreign countries.

China lost their ability of BRI in Europe with selling energy to Europe. Russia destroyed that. China should have used the Pink Tide in Latin America to defeat Monroe Doctine and then if US tries to push China out of Peru or Chile, then China invades Taiwan in 2022.

You cannot sell Chinese energy to Latin America, you had the opportunity to play the victim and expand hegemony to beyond BRI energy and trade routes.

Sachs and Putin made sure geopolitics was ready for trump in the white house in 2025.

 

[Mero]

The goal of the Democratic Party is Empire Preservation. The goal of the Republican Party is Imperial advance. Expand against the US Empire in Democrat Years. Republican Years have chaos and wars and obstruction.

Putin and trump worked together to have the US have energy independence to be the exporter of energy to defeat Green Yuan, to replace the Middle East. trump wants to loot Europe of energy gas in Ukraine with the Ukraine deal. Loot Greenland, Canada and Venezuela of oil and gas. US is anti-green and China is the hub of Green Energy.

 

[Mero]

China should have realized to make friends with Europe in 2021 with the BRI and sale of green solar and wind energy products. Either nuke Europe off the map or be friends with Europe. The middle ground of pissing off Europeans only gets Europe militarized and on the side of Washington. Try the same stupid Putin strategy with Latin America, have China invade Mexico in 2022 to harm the USA and defeat their Monroe Doctrine. You only make Latin Americans run to daddy Washington for protection. Then have China support the pro-trump parties in Europe, I mean in Latin America... To hurt China. That is the role of Putin, trump buddy. Either destroy Europe or be friends are the beneficial things for China. I am not advocating destroying Europe, I am saying radicalizing Europe to be maga is against the Chinese interests. Europe on their own hated maga, then China solved the problem for Putin and trump. Do not outsource your foreign policy. Especially not to Jeffrey Sachs. Jeffrey Sachs destroyed Russia for the USA.

Europe was ready for a Green China in 2021, that changed in 2022.

 

[RealNapster]

Why China Generates Too Much Power​

Bloomberg Originals

Imagine building a country's capacity in a single year, that's essentially what China did in 2025. It added enough power to match India's entire electricity system.

India add one Pakistan to the grid every year. China add one India to the grid a year. Martians add one china to the grid a Martian year.

 

[Beijingwalker]

China dominates manufacturing across clean energy​

• China’s clean-energy manufacturing dominates solar, wind, and battery supply chains—not just final assembly.
• Source: AllianceBernstein (Oct 2026).

 

[ety]

China should have realized to make friends with Europe in 2021 with the BRI and sale of green solar and wind energy products. Either nuke Europe off the map or be friends with Europe. The middle ground of pissing off Europeans only gets Europe militarized and on the side of Washington. Try the same stupid Putin strategy with Latin America, have China invade Mexico in 2022 to harm the USA and defeat their Monroe Doctrine. You only make Latin Americans run to daddy Washington for protection. Then have China support the pro-trump parties in Europe, I mean in Latin America... To hurt China. That is the role of Putin, trump buddy. Either destroy Europe or be friends are the beneficial things for China. I am not advocating destroying Europe, I am saying radicalizing Europe to be maga is against the Chinese interests. Europe on their own hated maga, then China solved the problem for Putin and trump. Do not outsource your foreign policy. Especially not to Jeffrey Sachs. Jeffrey Sachs destroyed Russia for the USA.

Europe was ready for a Green China in 2021, that changed in 2022.

Lol, EU has always been a loyal lapdog of US. Chinese think tanks have just concluded after years studying EU polices and behaviors on China that it's no use to be nice to EU countries, they will always backstab China as they only listen to the whims of Washington on China. They only way that EU and China will have good relation is if US and China relation is also amicable.

 

[SaadH]

No Zionazi's in China that's why...

 

[drkrn86]

Mind blowing, India is the world most populous nation whose big population is supposed to consume considerable amount of electricity.

our per capita income status is still 5 to 6 times lower than that of China. Hence the difference