China leads the world in terms of renewable energy resources like solar power. And not just by a small margin either, making over twice as much solar power as the next highest country, the USA. Where do you store any excess solar energy for use when the sun isn’t shining? Answer: in ridiculously big batteries.
It’s not just the 609 gigawatts of solar power capacity China had in 2023 that makes the country a world leader. China is also the global leader in wind power, having a capacity of 441 gigawatts of clean, renewable wind energy. And the country just keeps building more.
The trouble is, that’s China’s wind and solar capacity. And because China’s grid infrastructure is still playing catch-up to the crazy amounts of renewables it keeps building, curtailment is a real issue and much of that power simply goes unused for one reason or another.
Grid-scale batteries could potentially remedy some of these issues in China and around the…
