[nforgerit]

I'd suggest browsing through ourworldindata.org's energy section. It is an absolutely astonishing accomplishment what China has built with slashing PV and battery prices as well as production capacities in recent years. Dynamics are such that there's hope they'll reach peak CO2 emissions in the upcoming few years, way ahead of their own plans. I'm saying that as a German whose 20y old idea (be a global supplier for renewable tech) they copied and executed like 10x better.

[bgnn]

China had 3 big goals for last 20+ years or so in their 5 year economic plans: getting rod of fossil fuel dependency, becoming a knowledge economy, increasing the share of service economy. Every government organization is working on to realize these. All the subsidies for EVs are there because they don't want to rely on gas and coal since it's not sustainable. Germany was lobbying to EU on the benefits of "clean diesel" till recently.

[JumpCrisscross]

> the subsidies for EVs are there because they don't want to rely on gas and coal since it's not sustainable

China doesn't want to rely on gas because they have to import it. They're fine relying on coal, which they can produce reliably, which is why they keep building coal-fired plants.

[cbmuser]

Most EVs sold in China are actually hybrids which is why the category is called NEV, i.e. new energy vehicles.

[PicassoCTs]

And they missed all of them. And their PR pieces got peddled in the west by journalists, to keep the remainders of the "green" revolution going in the west in increments, by generating virtual progress of a imaginary opposition. Goto keep up with the Johnsons halfway around the world, whos house may or may not be cardboard. Well meaning, but in the end, even well meaning lies destroy your megaphone.

[cbmuser]

China is currently building 29 nuclear power plants in parallel and plans to issue construction permits for 10 reactors each year.

The country is expected to reach an installed nuclear capacity of 400 GW in 2060.

And, unlike wind and solar, nuclear power plants provide baseload and can actually drive an electricity grid.

[toomuchtodo]

> The country is expected to reach an installed nuclear capacity of 400 GW in 2060.

Within the next ~14 months, the world will be deploying ~1TW/solar every year, ~200GW assuming 20% capacity factor for "apples to apples" comparison to thermal generation with a higher capacity factor. Compare to the rate of nuclear deployment and your 2060 figure, 35 years away.

> And, unlike wind and solar, nuclear power plants provide baseload and can actually drive an electricity grid.

There are numerous electrical grids in the world that operate without nuclear. There is minimum demand that needs to be met, but clearly nuclear isn't needed to do that (as evidenced by low carbon grids that operate without it).

https://e360.yale.edu/features/three-myths-about-renewable-e...

https://www.minister.industry.gov.au/ministers/husic/media-r...

https://web.stanford.edu/group/efmh/jacobson/Articles/I/NYNu...

https://www.google.com/search?q=baseload+is+a+myth