China brought 78 gigawatts of new coal power capacity online in 2025, but also 315 gigawatts of solar capacity and 119 gigawatts of wind.

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tonfa 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

And coal is mostly flat, while electricity demand is going up.

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	▲	leonidasrup 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		China mined more coal in 2025 then ever, but burned less in coal plans. Coal is slowly shifting from electricity production to synthetic oil and chemical production. https://www.mining.com/web/chinas-coal-output-hits-record-in... https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/chinas-top-coal-regi...

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sippingabonedry 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Which is easy to do when you live an authoritarian state with plenty of vast desert wastelands to erect solar/wind farms. Was there a village there last week? Not anymore, it was in the way. And best of all they can build it all with Uyghur forced labor. Accolades for China all around!

	▲	piva00 an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I don't see the USA building out that much solar in its vast desert wastelands.
	▲	harimau777 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Yes, and? That's not really relevant to the topic at hand. No one has said that China is a utopia and paragon of human rights.