Comment by bayindirh
5 hours ago
For me, both are equally impressive actually. Europe has some great clean-energy countries.
Interestingly Turkey passed 50% mark apparently. That's also an out of left field revelation for me.
5 hours ago
For me, both are equally impressive actually. Europe has some great clean-energy countries.
Interestingly Turkey passed 50% mark apparently. That's also an out of left field revelation for me.
This is not really very impressive in context, for two reasons. First, China generated 10,400 TWh in 2025 and France generated only 547 TWh. The 95% and 50% are being applied to different numbers, and the scales here just aren’t comparable. Second, nearly all of France’s power generation was built decades ago, and China’s was built very recently - and is still expanding rapidly in both nuclear and renewables. Comparing France to China is like comparing a 1970s solar powered bungalow to a gigafactory under construction.
Population of China is 1404 milions, population of France is 66 milion, so per capita France produces more electricity.
95% and 50% show that France has electric grid with much lower carbon emissions per unit of energy then China.
France build most of its nuclear reactors in 1980s (54 reactors within 15 years), as a reaction to oil schocks in 1970s. This transformation was faster then what is currently in China (again when compared per capita).