That momentum has been largely fueled by one country: China. Today, China commands more than 80 percent of the world’s solar supply chains , according to the International Energy Agency (IEA)—and even that figure only begins to capture the sheer speed and scale of the country’s solar sprint.
U.S. President Donald Trump may have spurned solar power, but that has done little to slow the solar revolution that is sweeping nearly every other corner of the world, from Pakistan to Chile.
U.S. President Donald Trump may have spurned solar power, but that has done little to slow the solar revolution that is sweeping nearly every other corner of the world, from Pakistan to Chile.
That momentum has been largely fueled by one country: China. Today, China commands more than 80 percent of the world’s solar supply chains, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA)—and even that figure only begins to capture the sheer speed and scale of the country’s solar sprint.
In just the first half of this year, for example, Beijing installed more than twice as much solar capacity as every other country in the world combined, according to Ember, a U.K.-based global ener
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