The Truth About China's Green Energy Industry [video]

I find looking at added generation cuts through the noise.

China adding coal and solar + wind in equal amounts over the last decade. About twice as much solar and wind vs coal over the last 5 as it accelerates, you can scrub through the years and get a little animation of what is growing more over time, though lumpy deployments like nuclear can skew things on short timescales.

Nuclear not really standing out from the background noise for China.

https://ember-energy.org/data/electricity-data-explorer/?ent...

Since 2020:

https://ember-energy.org/data/electricity-data-explorer/?ent...

France, the exemplar of nuclear grids, strangely has added renewables and reduced nuclear:

https://ember-energy.org/data/electricity-data-explorer/?ent...

US, deploying about as much solar and wind as gas and removing as much coal

https://ember-energy.org/data/electricity-data-explorer/?ent...

EU replacing coal and a little bit of nuclear with solar and wind:

https://ember-energy.org/data/electricity-data-explorer/?ent...

I chose 2015 as a rough date for "when solar and wind became the cheapest source available" as that affects the kind of countries that roll it out. Wind probably hit that slightly before solar but at the same time people already predicted solar to get cheaper so it had pre-momentum.

But you can go back further to 2005 and see for example that the US was already swapping coal for gas.

There's a very clear signal in all that noise if people care to look for it.