China Added More Solar Power in 2023 Than US Has Ever Built (1) (original) (raw)
Jan. 26, 2024, 11:20 AM UTC
Dan Murtaugh
Bloomberg News
China installed more solar panels in 2023 than any other nation has built in total, adding to a massive renewable energy fleet that’s already leading the world by a wide margin.
The country added 216.9 gigawatts of solar last year, blowing away its previous record of 87.4 gigawatts from 2022, the National Energy Administration said in a statement. That’s more than the entire fleet of 175.2 gigawatts in the US, the world’s second-biggest solar market, according to BloombergNEF estimates.
The NEA measures capacity in alternating current while BNEF tracks direct current, meaning the actual gap is even larger.
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