National Energy Administration

China's energy regulator responsible for policy, planning, and oversight of power sector development. - Accelerating transmission line approvals to address curtailment

China installed more wind and solar capacity in 2024 than the United States has ever built—360 gigawatts in a single year. The problem: much of that clean power sits stranded in remote western deserts, thousands of kilometers from the factories and cities that need it. State Grid Corporation of China just announced $574 billion to fix that.

Updated Jan 15

Chinese government agency responsible for energy policy implementation and regulation. - China's primary energy regulator

China's CO2 emissions fell 1% in the first half of 2025, extending an 18-month plateau that began in March 2024. This marks the first time clean power generation—not economic slowdown—has driven emissions down in the world's largest polluter, suggesting the peak may finally be structural rather than cyclical.

Updated Jan 9

China's top energy regulator, responsible for the renewable targets China hit six years early. - Raised national curtailment limit to 10% acknowledging grid integration challenges

In August 2023, wind turbines in China's far west nearly crashed the entire national grid. Low-frequency oscillations from poorly integrated wind farms in Xinjiang threatened a blackout across the world's most populous country. Twenty-eight months later, the crisis has intensified: curtailment rates nearly doubled in early 2025—solar waste jumped from 3% to 5.7%, wind from 3.9% to 6.6%—as record installations overwhelmed transmission capacity. Tibet now throws away one-third of its renewable electricity. China's answer: a 750 million volt-ampere AI-controlled smart transformer and over $83 billion in annual grid investment, racing to stabilize a system buckling under its own clean energy success.

Updated Dec 27, 2025