Comment by AuthAuth
1 day ago
No because they are highlighting a single year where solar was exceptionally high and when you look at a 5 year period it tells a completely different story. If you look at future investment there is still 60 trillion being spent on new coal and while thats smaller than the future investment in solar you need to account for the fact that there current power is already 60% coal.
Even if we give China the most charity and take their 2025 results at face vault(even though they NEED to be independently verified) China is at best average when it comes % of gridpower that is renewable. Off the top of my head I think they are like 27-30% renewable. But its actually worse because they are the biggest polluter by a mile. Bigger the next 6 biggest polluters combined.
It wasn't a "single year where solar was exceptionally high" because they generated more in 2025 by mid August than they did in the full year of 2024.
https://ember-energy.org/data/electricity-data-explorer/?ent...
The coal line was slightly under the previous year’s and is now overlapping i.e. no growth compared with last year (data up to October)
I dont think your link support the point you're trying to make. Unless you think a 200% increase in solar is better than a 50% increase in coal.
The link you've given shows more coal energy being added over the last 5 years than solar. Looking at end of 2020 to end of 2024.
So the solar deployment starts off unexceptional and gets more and more exceptional with every passing year?
At some point you have to accept this is not some anomaly and there is a pattern in the data that you are trying to to ignore.
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