Why China Generates Too Much Power

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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.

 

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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

 

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

 

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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/