Scout**
2022-09-07 09:00:03
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Well, still more than half of China’s primary energy comes from coal! And 7% from renewables (excluding hydropower, which is 15%. China has comparatively high hydropower potential). For comparison: Germany had 16.6% from renewables in total in 2020.I honestly assumed that people here understand the basic rule of three and at least have a small sense for numbers... China currently has 1.4 billion people, which is 17 times as many inhabitants as Germany with 82 million. China has a nominal capacity of 1020 gigawatts in renewable energies, Germany 131. Put this into relation and you get the following values: China = 1.4 GW nominal capacity per 1 million inhabitants. Germany = 0.6 GW nominal capacity per 1 million inhabitants ==> As of today, China has 2.3 times the nominal capacity of renewable energies as Germany. China plans to bring new renewable energy plants (e.g., photovoltaics) with a nominal capacity to the grid this year that corresponds to the current total nominal capacity of all renewable energies in Germany. So the absolute and relative numbers will continue to shift in favor of China. Is this meaningful for you now or should I prepare the numbers for you differently?