It's a bit ridiculous to claim Australia is somehow falling behind when our target seems? To be more ambitious than China's is. It's not actually mentioned anywhere what China's 2030 renewables target is.
It's apparently 1200GW, but the grid's capacity in 2019 was 3TW - so after accounting for capacity factor (0.25) china was only targeting ~10% renewables by 2030, compared to Australia's 80% grid share. The share will probably be higher than that in China, but it's still ridiculous to not provide a comparable number in the article.
It's easy to beat a goal that's set low, surprise! Australia's goal of 80% seems like a solid number to me as well, and given the general trajectory of renewables it would not surprise me if the grid is defacto all renewables shortly after that time anyway.
Comparing absolute numbers is obviously stupid too. 1.4B is ~50x the Australian population, so china installing 50x the capacity ("they install in a week what we install in a year") is not at all surprising (and hilarious to compare the numbers directly anywU)
The whole article just seems to be a bit of a puff piece giving air to an unambitious target. The ABC has really gone downhill, and it's a bit sad how uncritical they can be nowadays :( (not to detract from china making progress - that's always good - but this seems like a pretty baseline result given their population)
It's apparently 1200GW, but the grid's capacity in 2019 was 3TW - so after accounting for capacity factor (0.25) china was only targeting ~10% renewables by 2030, compared to Australia's 80% grid share. The share will probably be higher than that in China, but it's still ridiculous to not provide a comparable number in the article.
It's easy to beat a goal that's set low, surprise! Australia's goal of 80% seems like a solid number to me as well, and given the general trajectory of renewables it would not surprise me if the grid is defacto all renewables shortly after that time anyway.
Comparing absolute numbers is obviously stupid too. 1.4B is ~50x the Australian population, so china installing 50x the capacity ("they install in a week what we install in a year") is not at all surprising (and hilarious to compare the numbers directly anywU)
The whole article just seems to be a bit of a puff piece giving air to an unambitious target. The ABC has really gone downhill, and it's a bit sad how uncritical they can be nowadays :( (not to detract from china making progress - that's always good - but this seems like a pretty baseline result given their population)