China Reached Its 2030 Solar and Wind Target Six Years Early

[rcjordan]

After Installing a Record 357 GW of New Renewable Capacity in a Single Year   h/t: /r/UpliftingNews/

China Briefing 5 February 2026: Clean energy's share of economy | Record renewables | Thawing relations with UK - Carbon Brief

https://www.carbonbrief.org/china-briefing-5-february-2026-clean-energys-share-of-economy-record-renewables-thawing-relations-with-uk/

[ergophobe]

I think I posted previously about the IEA predictions wildly missing their targets every year.

The 2010 prediction for 2030 was achieved in 2016, for example.

https://thebreakthrough.org/issues/energy/solar-power-the-case-for-tempered-optimism
https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-ieas-renewables-forecast-grows-76-in-two-years-after-largest-ever-revision/

They keep thinking that things will flatten because obvious, known efficiencies have played out... and then growth defies those projections