Lauri Myllyvirta @laurimyllyvirta.bsky.social · 24/06/2025Chinese companies installed 93 GW of solar and 27 GW of wind in a single month in May. That's about 230 million solar panels and 5300 wind turbines. That's almost 100 solar panels every second, and a wind turbine every 10 minutes. 15719 0
Lauri Myllyvirta @laurimyllyvirta.bsky.social · 24/06/2025These wild installation numbers are made possible by rapid growth of the sector in the past few years and by strong profitability, compounded by a rush to install before a June deadline when the tariffs paid to new renewable power plants change. 1322 0
Lauri Myllyvirta @laurimyllyvirta.bsky.social · 24/06/2025This massive wave of capacity additions will inevitably be followed by a lull, but it still shows what is possible with the dramatically reduced costs and increased supply capacity of the solar industry in particular. 1322 0