Strategic CSR - China

The article in the url below conveys the extent to which China is expanding its electricity generation capacity:

"China is undertaking an energy-building boom unlike anything the world has ever seen, as Beijing seeks to ensure supply for power-hungry facilities that are key to dominating emerging industries of the future."

The scale is staggering. In the last year alone, China has added more capacity than India's electrical grid:

"The nation added 543 gigawatts of new capacity across all technologies last year, according to data from the National Energy Administration on Wednesday. That's 12% more than all the power plants combined in India as of the end of 2024."

And, in the last 4 years, China has added more electrical power than the U.S. is able to generate:

"The generation China has added since the end of 2021 is also larger than the entire US system."

It is doing this across a wide-range of fuels and technologies (fossil and renewable), and it is doing it year-over-year.

Take care

David

 

David Chandler

Strategic Corporate Social Responsibility: Sustainable Value Creation (6e)

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China's Four-Year Energy Spree Has Eclipsed Entire U.S. Power Grid

By Dan Murtaugh

January 27, 2026

Bloomberg

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-28/china-s-four-year-energy-spree-has-eclipsed-entire-us-power-grid