China's power generation has been firmly ranked first in the world for more than ten years!
On September 28, news came that Musk recently publicly stated that China's industrial production capacity has far exceeded that of the United States.
According to information on the X platform, Musk made this comment when replying to a user's post. The picture shared by the user shows that according to the data of the Energy Institute's "Statistical Review of World Energy" (2024 edition), shortly after 2005, China's power generation surpassed that of the United States and showed a straight upward trend. In 2023, it has far exceeded that of the United States.
"Wow. Industrial production capacity is first and foremost approximately equal to power generation. China's industrial production capacity has far exceeded that of the United States," Musk commented under the netizen's post.
In fact, China's power generation has been firmly ranked first in the world for more than ten years. Nowadays, the average daily electricity consumption for one person in our country is roughly the electricity consumption of one person in nearly three years 75 years ago.
Data for 2023 shows that the power generation in the United States is 4.4 trillion kilowatt-hours, India is 1.9 trillion kilowatt-hours, while China reaches an astonishing 9.4 trillion kilowatt-hours (almost five times and more than twice that of India and the United States).
Although the power generation in the United States is huge, in recent years, the problem of aging power grids in the United States has begun to become prominent. Especially in 2023, many key infrastructures have exceeded their designed service lives.
Just as exposed by the California wildfires, the aging power grid not only affects the stability of industrial electricity consumption but also increases safety hazards.
More importantly, the energy structure of the United States still highly depends on fossil fuels. Although there has been some progress in promoting renewable energy in recent years, coal and natural gas still account for the main proportion of power generation.