G7 ‘falling behind’ China as world’s wind and solar plans reach new high in 2025

https://www.carbonbrief.org/g7-falling-behind-china-as-worlds-wind-and-solar-plans-reach-new-high-in-2025/

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Tikiporch@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 203d (1 reply)

China produces over 80% of the world's solar panels. Shouldn't they be ahead of everyone else?

Tiresia@slrpnk.net · 2 pts · 202d

The rest of the world shouldn't be producing only 20% of the world's solar panels.

MrMakabar@slrpnk.net · 2 pts · 202d (1 reply)

The US makes up half of the G7 population. Given Trump, the G7 are always going to fall behind China. Add to that a bunch of the countries having relativly clean grids and you probably not going to see massive deployments.

Hirom@beehaw.org · 1 pts · 202d

That population figures surprises me. But Wolfram Alpha says it's roughly correct, ie 44% https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=population+of+USA+vs+population+of+G7+countries