China’s Power Crunch Means Sidewalks Packed With Generators
- Threat of outages rises in parts of China, Japan and Taiwan
- Electricity use surging as economies recover from pandemic
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There’s a new fixture along the alleyways of Guangzhou -- the portable generator.
Videos on China’s popular social media app WeChat show blue and red generators spinning and hissing smoke outside of crowded clothing factories in the city at the center of the nation’s industrial heartland. The reason for their popularity? A suddenly unreliable power grid.