China Is On an Epic Solar Power Binge (technologyreview.com)

An anonymous reader links to an article on MIT Technology Review: It's worth taking a minute to appreciate the sheer scale of what China is doing in solar right now. In 2015, the country added more than 15 gigawatts of new solar capacity, surpassing Germany as the world's largest solar power market. China now has 43.2 gigawatts of solar capacity, compared with38.4 gigawatts in Germany and 27.8 in the United States. According to new projections, it seems that trend is going to continue. Under its 13th Five Year Plan, China will nearly triple solar capacity by 2020, adding 15 to 20 gigawatts of solar capacity each year for the next five years, according to Nur Bekri, director of the National Energy Administration. That will bring the country's installed solar power to more than 140 gigawatts. To put that in context, world solar capacity topped 200 gigawatts last year and is expected to reach 321 gigawatts by the end of 2016.

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Title case is stupid

[wonkey_monkey]

China Is On an Epic Solar Power Binge

Poor "an." Why doesn't "an" get a capital letter?

Of course the real question is why all the other words do, when No-one Ever Writes Anything Else Like This.

Re:That's nice

[gstoddart]

Their use of the technology will get them to make it better, which benefits everyone.

Well, let me offer a counter point (as someone who knows nothing about China based on what we see in the news) ...

Widespread corruption and skirting of environmental laws will make a hell of a mess as people get swindled or they wreck their environment even further.

The pattern seems to be that someone gets rich, a lot of other someones die or have their town ruined, and then the show trial comes in to try to make it look like someone is being held accountable.

I wouldn't expect sunshine and rainbows all around just yet.

Remember the melamine which showed up in pet food a couple of years back? In China, that showed up in baby formula.