{"id":219002,"date":"2025-07-29T16:19:47","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T21:19:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/nearly-three-quarters-of-solar-and-wind-projects-are-being-built-in-china"},"modified":"2025-07-29T16:19:47","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T21:19:47","slug":"nearly-three-quarters-of-solar-and-wind-projects-are-being-built-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/nearly-three-quarters-of-solar-and-wind-projects-are-being-built-in-china","title":{"rendered":"Nearly three-quarters of solar and wind projects are being built in China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nearly-three-quarters-of-solar-and-wind-projects-are-being-built-in-china.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>China is rapidly scaling up its solar and wind energy infrastructure, accounting for nearly three-quarters of all utility-scale projects currently under construction worldwide, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/globalenergymonitor.org\/report\/chinas-solar-and-onshore-wind-capacity-reaches-new-heights-while-offshore-wind-shows-promise\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external\">a new report from the Global Energy Monitor<\/a> (GEM). With 510 gigawatts (GW) already under construction and a total pipeline of over 1.3 terawatts (TW), China is consolidating its position as a dominant force in the global energy transition.<\/p>\n<p>This acceleration follows years of sustained growth. As of early 2025, China\u2019s operating solar and wind capacity has reached 1.4 TW\u2014equivalent to 44% of the global total and more than the combined capacity of the European Union, United States, and India. In the first quarter of this year, wind and solar supplied 22.5% of the country\u2019s electricity, overtaking thermal power capacity for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>The majority of China\u2019s new capacity is coming from centralized utility-scale projects, particularly in northern and western regions such as Xinjiang and Inner Mongolia, which host nearly 40% of the country\u2019s planned solar and wind capacity. In 2024 alone, China added 278 GW of solar and 46 GW of wind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China is rapidly scaling up its solar and wind energy infrastructure, accounting for nearly three-quarters of all utility-scale projects currently under construction worldwide, according to a new report from the Global Energy Monitor (GEM). With 510 gigawatts (GW) already under construction and a total pipeline of over 1.3 terawatts (TW), China is consolidating its position [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":718,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/718"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219002\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}