China has successfully integrated a 4-gigawatt solar project, one of the world's largest, into its power grid. This move significantly advances China's renewable energy ambitions and aligns with its goal to peak emissions by the end of the decade. While renewable capacity installations surge, coal-fired power generation continues to rise, raising questions about the long-term balance between renewables and traditional energy sources in China.
China has connected one of the world’s largest solar power projects by capacity to the grid as the country continues to boost renewable energy installations. The Ruoqiang PV project is a giant 4-gigawatt GW solar project in the southeastern part of the Taklamakan Desert, developed and operated by China Green Electricity Investment. The project was connected to the grid this week, Chinese media report.
The capacity of Ruoqiang PV is so massive that it is equal to the entire installed solar capacity in Canada, according to data from BloombergNEF cited by Bloomberg. The solar project is part of the Chinese government’s plan to have its emissions peak by the end of the decade. Despite growing renewable energy capacity installations, thermal power generation in China, which comes mostly from coal-fired power plants, rose by 1.9% between January and November from the same period a year earlier, Chinese statistics data showed earlier this week. The trend so far this year points to an increase in coal and overall thermal power generation even as China’s renewables installations have boomed in recent years. Although the share of coal in China’s electricity generation has been declining in recent years with the renewables boom, Chinese coal power generation and demand remains strong. Coal still accounts for about 60% of China’s power generation, despite a surge in hydropower earlier this year after abundant rainfall, which reduced the share of coal in the country’s energy mix during the summer. The surge in Chinese power demand has been attributed to the increased use of household appliances amid rising numbers of middle-class residents, as well as the surge in power use for data centers and electric vehicle chargin
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