Fyi capacity announced is very far from the real capacity when dealing with renewables. It's like saying that you bought a Ferrari so now you can drive at 300km/h on the road all of the time.

In mid latitudes, 1 GW of solar power produces around 5.5 GWh/day. So the "real" equivalent is a 0.23 GW gas or nuclear plant (even lower when accounting for storage losses).

But "China installed 63 GW-equivalent" of solar power is a bit less interesting, so we go for the fake figures ;-)

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FooBarWidget 3 days ago | parent [-]

You think they don't know that too? You can bet they're investing heavily in grid-level storage too.

	▲	Saline9515 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		I was commenting the initial number announcement. And storage at this scale right now doesn't exist. The most common way, water reservoirs, requires hard-to-find sites that are typically in the Himalaya, so far away from the production place. And the environmental cost isn't pretty either.