That’s kinda my point. In USA the price of solar has always been expensive. It’s now really cheap. Just not in USA. China made it affordable. USA made it expensive again.

Same thing with EVs.

What happens when people in America find out how much sunshine costs?

I suspect around when that happens interest in battery powered cars will increase.

There’s also no question that, for now, gasoline cars are selling better in second-tier markets, such as Eastern Europe, Latin America and Africa, with scarce EV-charging infrastructure.

Longer term, Beijing aims to dominate EVs and plug-in hybrids globally. But in the interim, many Chinese automakers are building overseas brands by giving customers whatever they want.

Also this is investors complaining about large solar farms while not talking about distributed home solar.

She said some state planning changes and an ongoing review of the National Electricity Market could be causing uncertainty, but that large-scale renewable energy developments were often marginal investments and the underwriting program needed to offer more support for each project that received a contract.

“The structural issues include state planning delays, grid connection uncertainty, transmission constraints, rising project costs and lack of long-term revenue certainty,” he said.

Investors only concern is how they charge people for sunshine. There are parts of Australia where home solar generation just works.

Plenty of other examples are already up and running. Doesn’t take that much money to ask how they already solved the problem.

https://octopus.energy/press/as-wasted-wind-is-set-to-hit-650m-so-far-this-year-octopus-introduces-wasted-wind-ticker-on-homepage-to-highlight-colossal-costs-of-broken-energy-system

Wind curtailment in the UK has cost consumers over £1 billion so far in 2025, primarily due to payments made to wind farms to stop generating electricity when the grid cannot handle the supply. This issue is expected to escalate, potentially reaching £8 billion annually by 2030, as the infrastructure struggles to keep up with renewable energy production.

Much more interesting is what UK doesn’t do with that power. Someone should post that article about curtailment problems and how that jacks up people’s power bills.

You know people can read the article right?

The dispute is an example of how Europe is caught between Washington and Beijing in their rivalry over trade and tech.

Netherlands issued its seizure order after the United States last year put Wingtech on its “entity list” of companies that face export controls, and then expanded it in September to include subsidiaries including Nexperia.

Keeping oil prices down slows down the green energy transition. That’s it.

If that seems odd to you then read up on what China has been doing with green energy. Then USA.

The world runs on fossil fuels. What happens when China stops playing that game?

The weird part is foreign investment kinda ignored all the Chinese real estate investments outside of China done by China nationals.

Most of the nuclear growth is in China, the WNISR data show, where capacity grew by 3.5 gigawatts in 2024 while solar added 278 GW. “Between 2005 and 2024, there were 104 startups and 101 closures,” the report states. “Of these, 51 startups and none of the closures were in China. Thus, outside China, there has been a net decline by 48 units over the same period.”

Outside China, the report states, “nuclear generation in 2024 remained 363 TWh below the 2006 level, an almost 14% plunge.”

China is the only country with two SMR designs in operation or built, and limited operational data available. Elsewhere, they “remain largely aspirational, as despite rising public and private funding, no Western SMR construction has begun,”

Chinese and Russian governments accounted for 44 of 45 of the world’s reactor construction starts between January 2020 and mid-2025, the WNISR states. China accounted for seven of the nine construction starts in 2024.

The peer-reviewed report, written by researchers at the Stockholm Environment Institute, Climate Analytics and the International Institute for Sustainable Development, aims to focus attention on the supply side of the climate equation and the government policies that encourage or steer fossil fuel production.

What’s their bias?

Nation wide workers strike? Is this a thing? Asking for a friend in USA? /s

Look what China has been up to with nuclear power plants.

No easy access to legal porn means illegal porn becomes more profitable. That’s very bad.

In China for years if large grid scale wind or solar was installed energy storage was required. Something about wind not always blowing or night time if I remember correctly.

China wants USA stable and sane. Weak or strong USA isn’t a priority right now.

People tend to forget how afraid China is of USA. Last time Trump was in office Milley had to call China a couple of times to tell them USA was not going to implode and attack China.

Someone has to make hard decisions when other people won’t make sane decisions. No one wants Trump to start WW3 with China. No one.

Remember what just happened when China hit the off switch on rare earth metals?

India has been doing this too. And China.

Anyone got that quote about Trump wanting to build resorts in North Korea?