Asian realism resists Western demands for wind and solar
Tom KirkmanIndependent Project Manager
Asian pragmatic realism in energy seems to be resisting the Western demands to convert to intermittent wind and solar, which is the Western Woke Way to rolling power blackouts.
Funny that.
》Coal at 52% makes up more than half of Asia’s electricity generation,
more than wind, solar, hydro, and nuclear *combined*
》Natural Gas at 17% makes up more electricity generation than
wind, solar, and nuclear *combined*.
With Russia starting to transition sending natural gas to Asia rather than to its historical customer EU, it would seem likely that Asia’s reliance on natural gas to generate electricity will increase, rather than decrease.
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“The International Energy Agency (IEA) predicts that Asia will account for half of the world’s electricity consumption by 2025, with one-third of global electricity being consumed in China.
To explore how this growing electricity demand is currently being met, Visual Capitalist’s Sam Parker and Selin Oğuz created the graphic below, mapping out Asia’s main sources of electricity by country, using data from the BP Statistical Review of World Energy and the IEA.
Although clean energy has been picking up pace in Asia, coal currently makes up more than half of the continent’s electricity generation.
● No Asian countries rely on wind, solar, or nuclear energy as their primary source of electricity, despite the combined share of these sources *doubling* over the last decade.
… The vast growth in total electricity generated, however, means that a lot more fossil fuels are being burned now (in absolute terms) than at the start of the last decade, despite their shares dropping.
… While China accounted for just 5% of global electricity demand in 1990, it is en route to account for 33% by 2025.
● The country is already the largest electricity producer in the world by far, annually generating nearly double the electricity produced by the second largest electricity producer in the world, the United States.
With such a large demand, the current source of China’s electricity is worthy of consideration, as are its plans for its future electricity mix.
Currently, China is one of the 14 Asian countries that rely on coal as its primary source of electricity.
In 2021, the country drew 62% of its electricity from coal, a total of 5,339 TWh of energy.
To put that into perspective, this is approximately three times all of the electricity generated in India in the same year. …”