Cleaner Tech
China Grid Giants Seek Solutions for a System Flooded With Solar
- Country nearly quadrupled battery storage capacity last year
- It looks to move clean power through enhanced connectivity
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While much of the rest of the world tries to build more renewables, China is figuring out how best to make use of an abundance of them.
After record installations of solar and wind power last year, several regions in China have shown strains handling the new surges of electricity that come and go based on weather conditions. The country needs to keep building new power infrastructure and improve policies and market rules to keep such strains from slowing the energy transition, energy and grid officials said in a panel discussion at Boao Forum for Asia in Hainan, China, on Tuesday.