| ▲ | kieranmaine 4 hours ago | |
I'd argue it already is. Only 7% of electricity generating capacity being added in 2026 will be natural gas. > Solar power makes up 51% of the planned 2026 capacity additions, followed by battery storage at 28% and wind at 14%. | ||
| ▲ | toomuchtodo 4 hours ago | parent [-] | |
We can go faster, as China demonstrates (~400GW of renewables deployed annually), and as someone who believes in climate change, I personally would like to go as fast as physics will allow. https://ember-energy.org/latest-insights/china-energy-transi... https://www.cfr.org/articles/china-is-planning-decades-ahead... https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/07/10/1119941/china-en... https://e360.yale.edu/digest/china-renewable-photo-essay https://english.www.gov.cn/archive/statistics/202601/30/cont... | ||