China on track to blow past Xi’s clean power goal 5 years early, thanks to booming solar sector

China has announced or begun construction on enough projects for total wind and solar capacity to likely reach 1,371GW by 2025. - Reuters

BEIJING (Bloomberg): China is on track to almost double its wind and solar capacity by 2025 and blow past the country’s clean power target five years early, according to Global Energy Monitor.

The country has announced or begun construction on enough projects for total wind and solar capacity to likely reach 1,371 gigawatts by 2025, the climate research firm said in a new report. That would vastly outstrip a goal set by President Xi Jinping in late 2020 of having 1,200 gigawatts of panels and turbines by 2030.