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China renewables capacity additions soared in 2023, growing more than four times faster than the G7
(lemm.ee)
Disclaimer: OP doesn't support CCP or authoritarian communism.
Sharing this here as it's exactly what you mention!
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/carbon-intensity-electricity
CO2g per KWh is the standard metric for "how much a countries electricity pollutes".
Tldr China's is 580 and improving. USA is 370 and improving at a similar rate (this obviously might change under the current administration).
Others worth pointing too is Sweden (40gCO2) which is a good marker of what's possible for a wealthy country and India (700gCO2) because as a country with a lot of economic development and recent historic poverty, it shows why China's improvement is worth noting.
EDIT: I probabably implied that China and USA should be compared in terms of their improvements, but didn't mean too! I figure Lemmy is a mostly USA centric place, so thought that was a good benchmark. Comparing USA to similar wealthy, established enconomies like European countries, it's improving a lot slower. Comparing China to fast developing countries like India or Nigeria (probably a messy comparison) shows its improving faster than you'd expect.
Thanks! That is indeed a more useful and interesting piece of data.
I expected numbers on China to be a bit lower, but an improvement is surely significant.
Love the time slider!
https://www.carbonbrief.org/chinas-construction-of-new-coal-power-plants-reached-10-year-high-in-2024/
Compared to the whole "move fast and break things" mantra thats migrated to the US government, this seems like a wise move.
Looks like China's is improving, but still a little over the worldwide average.
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/carbon-intensity-electricity?tab=chart&country=
Edit: oops this is the same data you were showing, just in graph form instead.