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China Installed More Solar Panels Last Year Than the U.S. Has in Total

I saw an article on here the other day they are installing them in poor locations. I'll look for it.
They may have the most but they don't seem to be best utilized.
 
I'm confused; are they still building coal plants, or solar, or both?

All depends on what article you open on google. More coal. Decommissioning coal. More solar, and every other variation.

IMO, coal is far more economical than solar panels, so I believe more coal plants are opening.
 
Q-Dog said:
I should probably get more solar panels.
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And batteries.
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chrisski said:
I'm confused; are they still building coal plants, or solar, or both?

All depends on what article you open on google. More coal. Decommissioning coal. More solar, and every other variation.

IMO, coal is far more economical than solar panels, so I believe more coal plants are opening.
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Solar is faster and cheaper to build, and requires no fuel. And no toxic coal ash to deal with.
 
chrisski said:
I'm confused; are they still building coal plants, or solar, or both?

All depends on what article you open on google. More coal. Decommissioning coal. More solar, and every other variation.

IMO, coal is far more economical than solar panels, so I believe more coal plants are opening.
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They need a ton of new energy so they are building coal plants alongside the solar. Hard to do baseload with solar.
 
Yup. They have really increased coal usage... It's had a major impact on prices for US users of coal. The larger operations jacked prices way up, they'd rather ship it overseas than sell it locally.

I've been burning anthracite coal for ~ 5 years. I've noticed no damage or additional build up on my array a few feet from the chimney.
 
One of the interesting advantages that China has with it's controlled economy is that it is easier to deal with production and use.

They can set up a solar panel plant and start producing them with or without external customers.

For instance they can set it up to build 1000 panels per day (made up number) and it does not matter if their is external customer demand - they just send the extras to their solar farms and put them there. They don't need to worry about getting stuck with products.

It also gives them a way to use solar panels that are having reliability problems - they just put them in anyway and when they fail - just swap them out.

It is an fascinating economic structure. Not perfect of course but fascinating.
 
Brucey said:
They need a ton of new energy so they are building coal plants alongside the solar. Hard to do baseload with solar.
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I wonder how much of the solar numbers from threre are reliable with state controlled media.
 
chrisski said:
If this is true, how come my electricity rates go up over time as solar plants are put in and coal plants shut down?

Chart shows one thing, my bill another.
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When a coal plant reaches end of life it gets replaced, and that costs money. It matters not what replaces that plant.

In my situation, our power company still has some coal generation and actually reduced cost per kWh by about a half cent, but in a separate line item they add on the cost of the fuel to make that power, plus a couple of "hurricane restoration charges" to cover the cost of replacing the power lines and poles that get blown down every hurricane season.
 
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