China’s energy dominance in three charts

So, while we all try to get our heads about what the next for climate technology in the United States and beyond, let’s take a look at the dominance of China when it comes to clean energy, as is documented in three plans.

China is on an absolute tear to install wind and solar energy. The country reached an additional 198 GB between January and May, with 93 GW in May alone.

For context, these additions are more than the first five months of the year than twice the ability of the network in California. The ability of renewable energy sources for that state is not –The entire network.

Meanwhile, the political transformation in the United States is expected to slow the new additions to solar energy and wind. With the abstraction of tax credits and other stripped support, you will face a lot of the new capacity that was expected to come online by the end of the contract now delay or cancel.

This is important because of all the new electricity generation that has been in the United States recently, and renewed energy sources are the vast majority. It is expected that the storage of solar energy and batteries alone will constitute more than 80 % of the capacity additions in 2025. So the slow winds and solar energy means mainly slowing the addition of a new electricity capacity, at a time when the demand is in height. (Hello, Amnesty International?)

The EV market in China is also flourishing – the country that is currently joking with a large symbolic landmark, close to the point where more than half of all the new vehicles that are sold in the country electricity. (This sign has already passed for one month and can do this on an annual basis in the next two years.)

It is not only the sale of these vehicles inside China, either: the country is issued by the world, with customers, including well -known markets such as Europe and growth like India and Brazil. As of 2024, more than 70 % of electric vehicles and hybrids on roads were built all over the world in Chinese leaders in old car manufacturers. Jim Farley, Ford CEO, shared some amazing comments at the Asbin Ideal Festival last month about the extent of China’s progress in car and price technology. “They have superior technology in the vehicle,” said Farley. “We are in global competition with China, not only EVS. If we lose this, we do not have a future Ford.”

In the future, China still poured money in renewable energy sources, storage, networks, and energy efficiency technologies. It also outperforms the rest of the world over nuclear energy. The country has doubled three times its renewable energy from 2015 to 2025.