> A report by Sydney-based think tank Climate Energy Finance (CEF) said China was installing renewables so rapidly it would meet its end-of-2030 target by the end of this month — or 6.5 years early.

> "They have clear targets and every part of their government is harnessed to deliver the plan," he said.

Do they? The fact that this is off-plan and happening very quickly makes me think that we've probably crossed a threshold and people are just building the things because they are cheap. I never understood why these conversations always seem to have the frame that the governments of the world have to be so deeply involved in constructing power plants. It is only really a factor in nuclear power because the west keeps regulating new plants out of the picture. Free markets love renewables, they have low capital costs and are very modular.

I'd love to see Australia take up China's strategy of building everything. Harmonising our nuclear policy to mimic China's appears superficially to be an extremely clever idea.