Bloomberg says that China is “wasting more and more” clean energy as it “adds wind turbines and solar panels faster than its grid is able to digest them”. The outlet, citing government data first reported by Economic Information Daily, says that “nearly 12% of power generated by wind turbines” in north China’s Inner Mongolia in 2022 has been “wasted” because the grid “couldn’t take it”, along with “10% of solar power” in Qinghai, a northwestern province in China. The main “culprit’‘ is the “blistering pace” of renewable energy installations, the outlet says, adding that the country’s “slowing economy and energy use amid Covid-19 lockdowns has something to do with it”.

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