Renewables capacity is growing rapidly
China plans key role for green hydrogen
Production of green hydrogen and fuels from rapidly expanding renewable power sector becoming increasingly important to country’s energy strategy
China sees its planned scale-up of green hydrogen production as a way to address the twin challenges of reducing its reliance on oil imports and smoothing out power grid constraints caused by its massive deployment of renewables, according to government and industry speakers at a recent conference in Shanghai. China has added renewable power capacity at record levels this year, with new solar capacity of 142.56GW installed in the first ten months up by 63% from the full year of 2022, according to figures from trade body the China Photovoltaic Industry Association. Total installed renewable generation capacity topped 1,200GW last year and capacity could exceed 3,000GW by 2030, according to at
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