Top countries with the most solar power in operation - Global Times
Top countries with the most solar power in operation - Global Times
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China putting china on top of the charts is expected, but it's per capita production that makes more sense for direct comparison of countries.
In that case.. Australia is the leader by a strong margin..
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Per capita production makes no sense actually, per capita consumption makes sense, and that's double of that in China in Australia.
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Doesn't that table show Australia has double the consumption? also that consumption number is in total primary energy, regardless if the energy comes from solar or not.
I believe that to see how much of the TPES for each country comes from solar we would need to divide the solar production per capita by the total consumption per capita:
- Australia: 1774 kWh / 63257 kWh = 2.80% - China: 410 kWh / 33267 kWh = 1.23%
Sources: the 2023 numbers from his link, and the 2023 numbers from the source in your wikipedia link.
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Yo wtf, Aussie w???
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Were looking to supply Asia with power soon. Afaik this is all Northern territory, not eastern seaboard.
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US once again beaten by rest of world.
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I'm just impressed the UK can even be in the top 10.
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Data should be per capita or another relative measure.
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If you want it Per Capita, try this one with data from 2023.
Pretty different story naturally.
(edited link to include the same countries as the op post)
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Yes, solar per capita, or percentage of solar in total energy production.
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I reckon we’d be doing even better if it was total renewables, we lean toward wind power more than most, what with being an island and all
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By "solar power in operation" (in GW) i think they mean maximum output capacity rather than actual production, since these numbers add up to 923 GW while wikipedia says in 2024 there was 2.13 petawatt-hours (243 GW on average) actually produced by solar.
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