The \u201cwasted\u201d wind and solar energy stems from inflexible grid management that continues to rely on coal for baseload power and stymies a clean energy expansion that could otherwise generate electricity equivalent to the needs of France, according to analysis by the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA) think tank.<\/p>\n
China\u2019s energy demand rose in the first quarter of this year. However, instead of filling the gap with its rapidly expanding wind and solar capacity, it reverted to fossil fuels, according to the report.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhile the Strait of Hormuz crisis has boosted China\u2019s focus on energy security \u2013 including through clean energy and electrification \u2013 its electricity system is failing to keep up,\u201d the CREA analysis for Carbon Brief, a climate news site, reported on June 4.<\/p>\n
Can the Middle East war turbocharge China\u2019s global EV ambitions?<\/p>\n
CREA found that curtailing wind and solar plants \u201cleft China more exposed to the closure of the Strait of Hormuz by increasing the need for other fuels\u201d, including coal and gas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The \u201cwasted\u201d wind and solar energy stems from inflexible grid management that continues to rely on coal for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":518351,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[269],"tags":[1793,224163,224164,381,10982,18,71275,440,2220,19,169299,17,135613,133,168834,107,224162,40672],"class_list":["post-518350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-beijing","tag-carbon-brief","tag-centre-for-research-on-energy-and-clean-air","tag-china","tag-coal","tag-eire","tag-energy-security","tag-environment","tag-france","tag-ie","tag-iran-war","tag-ireland","tag-national-energy-administration","tag-science","tag-strait-of-hormuz","tag-us","tag-wind-and-solar-energy","tag-xinhua"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116692137196997946","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=518350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518350\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/518351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=518350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=518350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=518350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}