China Adds 160 Gigawatts in First 3 Quarters of 2024 – CleanTechnica

[bilsbie]

https://cleantechnica.com/2024/10/26/china-adds-160-gigawatts-in-first-3-quarters-of-2024/

[nabla9]

China is building new coal plants about 40 gigawatts new net capacity per year.

The new plants that are designed to run only intermittently as a peaker plants to smooth out differences in solar supply and demand.

[BrianHenryIE]

I found the article lacking the context of the total electricity generation. Is this 1%, 10%?

[defrost → BrianHenryIE]

IEA: Energy system of China

https://www.iea.org/countries/china (2022)

There's total energy : https://www.iea.org/countries/china/energy-mix

and there's just electricity : https://www.iea.org/countries/china/electricity

Total 2022 electricity production in China: 8 950 643 GWh (Global #1)

Total 2022 electricity production in USofA: 4 495 368 GWh (Global #2)

Currently coal is the source of 62% of China's total electricity generation.