China’s Jiangsu province launches 27.3 GW offshore solar plan

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China as usual going gangbusters on solar. Clowning the US each step of the way to the top.

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u/CatalyticDragon 6d ago

While there are many individuals and groups in the US who wish to advance green energy and see the US become a leader in the area, there's a powerful minority (GOP) determined on undermining that work in favor of a propping up a dying fossil fuel industry. It is really quite depressing at times.

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u/BearProfessional7024 6d ago

The west is done for. It’s just an economic zone.

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u/CatalyticDragon 6d ago

I wouldn't go that far. Systems have been put in place which greatly amplify authoritarian and corrupt voices but those voices are a minority of the population. With a little less apathy those systems could be dismantled.

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u/Glass_Apricot 5d ago

Doesn’t China install a ton of coal on a yearly basis? Also, offshore anything is dumb, think of the cleanup in a natural disaster, the damage that is caused by being near water all the time. Vs a dry stable environment. What idiot authorized this?

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u/BearProfessional7024 5d ago

Yes they do install a ton of coal every year. That’s what happens when you’re the world’s biggest manufacturer. Can’t expect to export the world’s manufacturing and not need energy haha.

I’m sure the engineers thought of the concerns you have before approving the project. I wasn’t involved in the design so I can’t comment.

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u/DerFurz 5d ago

They install a ton of power in general. A lot of that is coal, but you can't really expect them to exclusively install renewables, if they can't really cover their energy need yet to begin with.

Edit: Off shore has it's place. Properly planned for the environmental impact is limited. It's not like a solar farm of that size doesn't have any impact on shore. The big upside is space.

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u/SweatyCount 6d ago

Wow! 27.3 GW of offshore only. Really impressive targets. I just wish other countries were this pragmatic and ambitious about installing renewables

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u/hmountain 6d ago

bet these make good coral reef/fish habitat

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u/M0therN4ture 6d ago

Targets...

Let us await what comes from predictions and targets first. We all know they have "high targets".

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u/lurksAtDogs 6d ago

So, they’ll either double the capacity or do it in half the time, or both? With renewables, China has consistently exceeded their stated goals.

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u/M0therN4ture 6d ago

What specific emission goals have they reached?

Tldr: none.

Source

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u/faizimam 6d ago

China almost always hits its targets, they are set to be achieveable

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u/M0therN4ture 6d ago edited 6d ago

Yeah you are just lying your ass off. Source?

China has never hit a target. Because their first target (which they haven't achieved yet) is peaking emissions by 2030.

Here is a source. And guess what, China's efforts to meet targets are highly insufficient.

https://climateactiontracker.org/countries/china/

Net zero target year: before 2060

Comprehensiveness rated as: Poor

Overall rating: Highly Insufficient

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u/Anallysis 6d ago

they achieved their NDC target. It says so in your link

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u/M0therN4ture 6d ago

You need to put on your glasses

NDC target against modelled domestic pathways

Highly insufficient< 4°C World

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u/Anallysis 6d ago

I did. do you see the black mark on the graph below? Their projection due to their policies(in blue) lines up with with their NDC target.

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u/M0therN4ture 6d ago

Only those that meet the NDC targets are deemed "sufficient". Read the source.

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u/Fast-Fail-6412 5d ago

"China has surpassed its NDC target for wind and solar capacity six years ahead of schedule, reaching 1,206 GW in July 2024", just because their targets are low doesn't mean that they won't reach them. Sufficiency is graded by how close the targets are to 1.5C.

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u/M0therN4ture 5d ago edited 5d ago

Eeeh...

That is not the main NDC target. These are sub targets contributing to the main NDC target.

These subtracts are combined in models to estimate the progress on the main NDC target which is based on total emissions.

Perhaps the most obvious is that their main NDC target is labeled as "Highly Insufficient". You are deliberately being obtuse and know full well their main NDC is highly insufficient, as the source literally says about the NDC.

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u/Anallysis 5d ago

That is untrue. CAT doesn't have a direct rating on whether a country met the targets they set for themselves. What they do have are ratings for

>>What the organization thinks of a country's NDC target

>>What the organization thinks of a country's Plan and policies

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u/CatalyticDragon 6d ago

Previous research on roof mounted solar potential in the Jiangsu region showed significantly more electricity production potential than demand (+50%, 2008).

I hadn't even considered offshore solar but that's another interesting avenue and these projects really seem ambitious. Some key points from the article;

~60 individual projects
+10 GW by 2027
+20 GW by 2030
16 to 20 220 kV land-based substations and high-voltage transmission lines
All projects will incorporate advanced energy storage systems (ESS) - which just means batteries

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u/exoticdisease 6d ago

Will be the biggest power plant anywhere in the world when finished

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u/P01135809-Trump 5d ago

Bigger than anything outside china but ppretty sure it won't be biggest in the world. The Chinese also have a solar farm being built in the desert that is set to be about four times this capacity.

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u/long5210 6d ago

trump will send us backwards when he stops wind turbine progress.

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u/Coolenough-to 6d ago

"All projects will incorporate advanced energy storage systems (ESS) to improve stability and efficiency. They will provide at least 10% of the installed capacity, with the ability to sustain output for two hours."- does this mean the storage will provide 2 hours of night-time energy?