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China Battles Wasted Solar Energy
9 Oct
Summary
- China's clean energy adoption faces grid infrastructure challenges.
- Significant volumes of clean energy are being wasted.
- Beijing aims to leverage energy abundance for global competition.

China's rapid expansion in solar and wind energy adoption has encountered a significant hurdle: insufficient grid infrastructure. As a result, a growing amount of clean energy generated is going to waste.
Beijing aims to leverage this surplus of clean energy. The government plans to use this abundance as a strategic tool in its ongoing competition with the United States for global technological and economic supremacy.