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China On Track To Meet 2030 Renewable Energy Targets By The End Of 2024 - The Renewable Energy Institute
(www.renewableinstitute.org)
That's great, but they are also installing a majority of the world's new coal power plants at the same time. In 2023 they installed about 300GW of renewables and 50GW of coal.