India adds roughly 15 GW of solar in first three months of 2026, doubling what it added last year

Yeah, Pakistan currently really goes hard on solar power.. 25% share of power in 2025.. up from 4% in 2021.

May be a hidden boon for chinese suppliers if domestic demand stagnates, since bigger countries can just place tarrifs on them and build their own domestic capacity, making them risky partners for long term.

the element of souvereignty makes it really cool. no need to rely on corrupt infrastructure administration

I don't think India will surpass USA in non renewable capacity, ever. India is already commissioning fewer coal plants, and USA has a behemoth 800 GW+ of non renewable energy capacity. Renewable capacity will maybe happen around ~2032 if USA solar scaling happens less aggressively, USA has a near 200 GW head start, so it will take some time. Total energy generation, maybe around 2035-2040 depending on how things play out.

I was aware of that, but I am unable to find any source that projects their installatons for 2027 and forth. The 1.7 TW additional goal is not difficult to achieve even with current rates, so i am wondering if it will stabilize around ~200 GW a year mark.

Why should it surge again in 2027? Also I was not aware of these conditions. I had simply assumed this was part of a broader national energy security movement by the CCP and that solar would remain a focus for the next decade. It would make a lot of sense if it were. The USA should be doing the same thing, but instead like complete and total idiots we are doing the opposite.

At the whole it is clean, but it is very expensive upfront, politically difficult. So to get the initial gain would take a very long time, if it happens. In contrast to Solar, where the price gets cheaper and they are smaller. Anyone can contribute and the gain is faster to realize.

there's nothing wrong with it, it's amazing but it takes absolutely forever to set up and it's expensive. On the other hand, you can slap solar panels and start generating electricity today

> What’s wrong with nuclear? > Cost and average build times. Solar and wind are cheaper and faster to build. We know that the sun goes down at night and that the wind isn't always blowing, but there are mitigations, such as HVDC transmission and storage. Which isn't a manifesto that we should never build nuclear, just that economics is why more nuclear isn't being built.

It's expensive and takes long to build

If you decide to build a nuclear reactor now it will produce electricity by the mit 2030s. At that point you need to have solved the issue otherways anyawys.

nuclear reactors are a great target in conflicts and global conflict is only gonna get more common as the resource wars starts

It costs billions of dollars and takes decades before it generates a single watt. Solar power plants can be up and running in a single year. 20 years of building solar power plants at current rates would equal hundreds of times what a single nuclear plant in the same time span can create. Waste disposal remains an issue for most countries, as many don't have a gigantic desert to just shove their waste into and ignore the radioactive poisoning of the people there. It's a non-trivial by product that is also a political minefield. There's also the fact that many nuclear orgs around the world are heavily corrupt and frequently involved in embezzling public money, cutting corners in construction and maintenance, and full of nepotism. Every single nuclear disaster has been the result of human failures and corruption. The equivalent basically can't happen for solar plants because the stakes are a lot power and industry a lot less specialist.

Solar is super c**** and requires minimal maintenance - occasionally cleaning the glass. Nuclear is the opposite lol

It's not clean. Stop telling lies. The mining, the preparation of the materials, the waste, the storage. Plus the danger of permanently making large areas uninhabitable if there's ever a defect somewhere. The only thing it is able to is to run 24/7. But with energy storage measures, you can compensate for that one flaw renewables have.

You do realize there are seasons and the southern hemisphere has it, too? Plus with countries around the equator have the struggle of the daily clouding.

>or you have to build massive grid scale storage. Which is cheaper than nuclear, and getting more so by the day.

Or you can lay long HVDC lines, and just steal power from the timezones that can provide it (assuming its dark out) or from more moderate latitudes. I think the longest in China right now is 3000km

Clearly, my comment went over your head. That's ok, take your time and come back to me once you learn your ABCs.

France just removed all climate related discussions at the next G7 meeting just to avoid clashes with Trump.

Countries moving on to be self sufficient energy wise which is bad for petro dollar/usa hence the hateful comment.