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China hits 1 TW solar milestone

www.pv-magazine.com

China hits 1 TW solar milestone

By the end of May 2025, solar capacity had reached 1.08 TW (1,080 GW), up 56.9% year on year.

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I’m not surprised! PV cells are cheaper than plywood these days.

They need it to run those garish lights all over every building in the cities.
- Ah but at least those garish lights are all LEDs these days with energy usage a fraction of what it would’ve been in times gone by
  
  Fair point, but there's so many more of them.

Solaris 🎉🎉

It’s a vibe seeing solar panels cover those iconic Southern China valleys
- The hill in the photo looks ugly, tbh. Still, much better (and livelier) than the landscape after oilsands or brown coal extraction.
  Preferably, most grid-connected solar panels would be on buildings, deserts, and postindustrial land. But in the face of the climate catastrophe, the South China hills are also fine.
  
  I mean - one thing ugly, and the other thing is that this land could be arable or a nature reserve.
  
  I don't think it looks ugly at all...
  I was just thinking about how much of a nightmare it would be to keep them all clean.
- Seriously. Is that a real photo? I've never seen a solar farm covering hills like that.
  
  When I look closely it seems real, there's all the construction tracks, but the solar panels themselves look fake in this resolution. It would help if they had added a few close-ups in the article.

Still building new coal plants at an increasing rate. Still increasing co2 emissions year on year. Still not commiting to reduced emissions. Nice green washing though.
Thats just co2 emissions, their other environmental damage stats are as bad if not worse.
- China hit peak coal already.
  
  I don't know where you heard that but its wrong.
- Being the country with the most solar power generation by far is not "green washing". For being the world's factory, they're doing quite well and it's obvious from trajectory that they're going to be among the greenest countries overall, including those countries that have externalized their pollution to China by using them as their factory.
  
  Why do they get to continue to pollute while everyone else has to ramp down? Everyone elses economy should slow down and manufacturing costs go up except China for some reason. I guess they're just a small developing nation despite having the largest gdp.
  Also I don't care if they have the most solar generation, they also burn the most coal and the most pollution more than the next 6 biggest polluters combined.
  Its not "pretty good considering they are the worlds factory" Any country can throw down some solar panels with the money earned from removing all environmental regulations and raping the earth.

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