Digging into China''s solar capacity numbers
The rapid growth of China''s solar sector from 2023 to 2024 has strained critical resources, including financial capital, grid capacity, and government support.
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China added almost twice as much utility-scale solar and wind power capacity in 2023 than in any other year. By the first quarter of 2024, China's total utility-scale solar and wind capacity reached 758 GW, though data from China Electricity Council put the total capacity, including distributed solar, at 1,120 GW.
Wind and solar now account for 37% of the total power capacity in the country, an 8% increase from 2022, and widely expected to surpass coal capacity, which is 39% of the total right now, in 2024. Cumulative annual utility-scale solar & wind power capacity in China, in gigawatts (GW)
(Chen Kun / VCG / Getty Images) China's solar generating capacity is expected to surpass coal for the first time this year, according to the country's top electricity industry group, marking a milestone in the country's long-standing effort to build a cleaner power system.
In 2021, 53 GW of solar power capacity was added in China—40% of the global total. 47 At year end, total solar power capacity reached 307 GW. 48 In the first half of 2022, roughly 31 GW of solar power were added to the grid in China. 49 China also leads the world in solar manufacturing, as it has for many years.
The rapid growth of China''s solar sector from 2023 to 2024 has strained critical resources, including financial capital, grid capacity, and government support.
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