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China’s coal power generation rebounded by 3.4% year-on-year in H1 2026, even as coal power plants were used less intensively and wind and solar curtailment rose by nearly 50%
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China’s coal power generation rebounded by 3.4% year-on-year in H1 2026, even as coal power plants were used less intensively and wind and solar curtailment rose by nearly 50%
(260901) -- BEIJING, Sept. 1, 2026 (Xinhua) -- This photo taken on June 1, 2026 shows an aquaculture-photovoltaic power project in Xiaojiazhuang Town, Liaocheng City, east China's...
Solar has overtaken coal to become China’s largest source of installed power capacity, reshaping the physical structure of the world’s biggest electricity system. China had 1,288 g...
China is building renewable energy infrastructure at a scale unmatched anywhere in the world. Yet the transmission system carrying that electricity to coastal cities remains heavil...
National Energy Administration data show China's installed solar capacity reached 1.286 billion kilowatts by end-July, overtaking coal's 1.285 billion kilowatts to become the natio...
China plans to increase wind and solar power generation by 53% within five years, making renewable electricity a binding national priority for the first time. The renewable energy...
Between late 2016 and August 2026, China connected 27 new nuclear reactors to its grid. In the same period, the United States connected two. As Jacopo Buongiorno—professor of nucle...
Even as China installs new solar and wind power capacity faster than the rest of the world combined, it is setting new benchmarks for the technologies through innovation. This year...
Beijing, 16 July – China now operates the world’s largest battery energy storage fleet, and new analysis from Ember shows there is still headroom to do more with it. Used to its fu...
Beijing has unveiled a comprehensive climate strategy for the period up to 2030, with the emphasis on further integrating renewable energy into industrial activities, transport and...
China’s clean energy machine is now moving so fast that it’s meeting soaring electricity demand and pushing coal power backward at the same time. more…
The number of data centers in China is surging thanks to AI, just like in the U.S. But unlike the U.S., China is racing to power them with clean energy. A data center in Mongoli...
After a decade of building out clean power capacity China is now deploying renewables fast enough to start destroying fossil fuel demand, according to Ember
China’s National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) and National Energy Administration (NEA) have published their 15th Five-Year Plan for Renewable Energy Development. Basica...
Chinese grid company unveils 20 measures supporting national carbon goals
Shanghai has pioneered the synergisation of computing centres with the power grid for peak-load management – a national first – as part of China’s push to enhance computing-grid co...
Falling oil consumption cuts China's Q2 carbon emissions, US and UK to chart 'Pink Corridor' for nuclear-powered shipping, and Spain pushes for oil and gas tax to fund climate adap...
The agreement identifies innovation in energy technologies, civilian nuclear energy, and related areas as promising fields for future cooperation
China, the world’s largest electricity market, now has more installed electricity generation capacity from solar than from coal plants. The news comes at just the right time – as C...
China has published a stricter mandatory energy consumption standard for polysilicon production, lowering the maximum allowable energy use for existing rod-silicon plants and tight...
Earlier this year I argued that China’s aluminum-sector carbon emissions had probably peaked around 2024. Since then, the output data have weakened one important part of that case....
The U.S. Department of Energy recently announced that it is turning old federal land — including Cold War uranium sites, closed military facilities, and other public parcels — into...
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