China is held up by the wind and sun cult as the perfect model of an all wind and sun powered future. Characters who’ve never visited the place, make increasingly unhinged claims about China ditching coal-fired power and embracing wind turbines and solar panels, as if that was the only sensible way forward.
Of course, at the international level, the CCP plays a long game, kidding the Climate Cult that they will abide by some notional, never quite defined, CO2 emissions target, somewhere in the far distant future, well, maybe, just about never.
The ever-inscrutable Chinese know how to play the West for fools, and have done for centuries. And, so it is with stories about China’s, said to be, burgeoning wind and solar capacity.
Which brings us to this week’s roundup.
In this report, Robert Bradley Jr details how China might be building wind and solar capacity, but it is not about to let chaotic and occasional power wreck its grid, firmly committed to the benefit of cheap, reliable around-the-clock coal-fired and nuclear power.
China Wind & Solar: Output Lags Capacity
Master Resource
Robert Bradley
14 July 2026
Continuing on that theme the team from Jo Nova, report on a recent bout of bad luck and bad weather when a stiff breeze managed to demolish thousands of solar panels along China’s coast.
Typhoon Bavi strikes solar parks in China giving a new meaning to “distributed energy”
Jo Nova Blog
Jo Nova
17 July 2026
Robert Lyman delivers a sad and sorry verdict: after 40 years and hundreds of billions of dollars in taxpayer and power consumer subsidies, wind and solar’s contribution to global energy remains risible.
Renewables still provided only 6% of global primary energy in 2025
Clintel
Robert Lyman
4 July 2026
Francis Menton provides a timely reality check for those claiming that mega-lithium-ion batteries are the solution to wind and solar’s hopeless intermittency.
Battery Storage For Grid Backup: Better Keep Working On It
Manhattan Contrarian
Francis Menton
8 July 2026
Jo Nova reports on the socialist dystopia, better known as Australia, where its commie Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese reckons he can direct AI data centres to run on power available a mere 30% of the time, on a random and perfectly chaotic basis. Delusional doesn’t cover it.
PM will force Data Centres to use renewables (because he knows they would use gas or coal if they could)
Jo Nova Blog
Jo Nova
16 July 2026
We close out with the piece from Vijay Jayaraj, reporting from Japan on its unabashed embrace of reliable energy sources. Whereas the Chinese claim that they are all in on wind and solar (duping climate cultists in the West), the Japanese make no bones about it: everything depends upon reliable and affordable energy, and so they shall have plenty of it.
Japan Chooses Reliable Energy Over Climate Nonsense
Townhall
Vijay Jayaraj
11 July 2026
Stay tuned, STT will be back next week with more.
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