China Installed More Solar Panels Last Year Than the U.S. Has in Total

Skkorm , 5 months ago

China's govt has been trying to make their country as self sustaining as possible, this is part of that initiative. No one can tell you shit if you're don't rely on anyone for external things.

SparrowRanjitScaur , 5 months ago

Ya, it makes sense considering China imports 2/3 of their oil. Solar and EVs make a lot of sense when you don't have much in the way of fossil fuels. Not even considering the environmental benefits

RobotToaster , 5 months ago

BuT At wHaT CoSt

LaLuzDelSol , 5 months ago

The enslavement of the Uighur people? I work for an American renewable energy company and a lot of contracts were disrupted by the US' Forced Labor Prevention Act. I suspect that the sudden jump in domestic Chinese installation is partially caused by Chinese exports being restricted by western nations.

Spazz , 5 months ago

We'd have more if these right wing assholes would get onboard. You know they're assholes because they're attacking China in the comments rather than acknowledging this awesome milestone

randon31415 , 5 months ago

Building giant empty cities in the middle of nowhere doesn't help the housing crisis in China.

Building giant solar and wind farms in the middle of nowhere does help with the pollution crisis.

Glad that they finally found something that uses dumping money in the middle of nowhere that can actually improve peoples lives instead of just prop up an economic bubble.

trackcharlie , 5 months ago

Cool.

And how many of them function properly?

kattenluik , 5 months ago

Probably every single one of them, but I'm guessing you just feel insecure about your country?

Disinfect056 , 5 months ago

Yea.... Hahaha they are chineese panels lol

LowtierComputer , 5 months ago

Many of the panels in the US are manufactured in China.

trackcharlie , 5 months ago

I was more referencing the fact that there's a significant problem in china with the misappropriation of funds and replacing of real components and equipment with fake or non-functioning components and equipment.

US has regulatory bodies that (sometimes) work on their own, China has regulatory bodies that only work when the state notices something is wrong, and by that time it's too late and several billion yuan (RMB) deep.

It's not as though there's an intended malevolence to the people by the CCP, it's just that their organization structure and manner doesn't allow for a lot of autonomy and requires direct orders to go into action.

trackcharlie , 5 months ago

I doubt it, I've no interest in discussing the matter with someone who clearly doesn't keep up to date on architectural issues within the mainland.

傻瓜

Disinfect056 , 5 months ago

Hahahhaa the correct comment! Lol

occhionaut , 5 months ago

This was done with the express purpose of having the title of it. Its a vanity project that wont last 10 years.

umbrella , 5 months ago

renewables are not vanity regardless of country

ryathal , 5 months ago

China regularly does vanity projects to get positive headlines. Mass tree planting has been a popular one, the trees are generally all dead in a year or two, but they got the pro environment headline.

umbrella , 5 months ago

yes, most replanted trees die regardless. forest coverage is up and thats what matters.

Rolder , 5 months ago

US Population: 332 Million

China Population: 1.4 Billion

Linkerbaan , 5 months ago

China doesn't have oil and they want to be energy independent. Because of this they heavily invest in renewables.

It's not like they are doing it to save the planet, but it does save the planet.

jeena , 5 months ago

Those are installed, but are they connected to the grid?

umbrella , 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago)

would it make any sense to spend precious time and resources to produce millions of solar panels to then just not bother to plug them in?

jeena , 5 months ago

Totally, you can get all the money from the government for it so you make the profit. Just look at the rent a bike industry in China or the EV industry

umbrella , 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago)

doesnt matter if its the government making that investment or private interests.

why invest and waste time and resources to make and install solar panels and not bothering to plug them in? thats a really bad take.

jeena , 5 months ago

I just showed you that there are doin this in the other two industries, it's not such a big leap to suspect that they are doing it in a third industry too.

umbrella , 5 months ago

their EVs and ebikes are booming worldwide dude. BYD is quite huge now.

it still doesnt make sense to pay for solar panels and not install them.

jeena , 5 months ago

Ok, I give up explaining what I mean, it doesn't matter.