China’s power grid no longer keeping up with green energy capacity: study
- Posted on July 23, 2026
- By South China Morning Post
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China's renewable energy infrastructure faces critical challenges as its power grid struggles to accommodate rapidly expanding wind and solar capacity. This infrastructure gap creates significant bottlenecks that delay energy transmission and distribution, potentially prolonging the country's dependence on coal-fired power plants. The mismatch between generation capacity and grid modernization threatens China's ambitious climate goals and clean energy transition timeline, requiring urgent investment in transmission networks and smart grid technologies to fully leverage green energy potential.
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