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topicnews · July 17, 2025

America has already lost clean energy against China. Trump only sealed his fate.

America has already lost clean energy against China. Trump only sealed his fate.


The new regime for clean energy can be summarized in incredible statistics: China has installed more wind and solar energy in one year than the total amount of renewable energies that are currently active in the United States.

America was already in the race behind China to dominate the industry, as new data from the global energy monitor show. President Donald Trump's “large, beautiful” expenditure calculation will secure his position as a clean energy loser, said experts CNN.

The expenditure law that Trump signed at the beginning of this month, knee capsules of clean energy tax for wind and solar. Company managers say that it will increase electricity prices for companies and consumers, since the cheapest electrons on the net (generated by wind and solar) are more expensive and are replaced by more expensive gas.

At the same time, pulling money from the clean energy industry puts the heels on the heels because it has been thrown that more efficient technologies and better battery storage are achieved.

In the meantime, according to Global Energy Monitor, China is currently building 510 gigawatts of solar and wind capacities on the scale of supply. It is already added online to the striking 1,400 gigawatts-what is being operated in the United States.

In short, “the game has already been mentioned,” said Li Shuo, director of the China Climate Hub at the Asia Society Policy Institute.

Wind and solar, strengthened by huge batteries that can keep their energy, also become an increasingly dominant force in the USA, but on a much smaller scale. Renewable energies create the vast majority of the new electricity, which has come online in the USA in recent years, and about 85% of the currently waiting to approve the country's permission.

The United States operated around 275 gigawatts of wind and solar at the end of last year. According to the US energy information management, a further 150 gigawatt wind and solar are planned for construction by 2031 – projects with Trump and Republicans who quickly compensate for the subsidies for renewable energies.

In the USA, wind and solar developers meet Buzzsaw, which is President Donald Trump. Trump violently urged to kill tax loans for wind and solar development in his signature law. He managed to limit the loans and to hinder the industry in other ways.

The law reduces the planned renewable energies into the network in half the next decade compared to projections without effectively. This means that in every continental US state rising electricity prices due to the price of renewable energies and more expensive gas, which fills the gap, as CNN reports.

Even if China is previously glowing installation pace, 510 gigawatt wind and solar are currently built. Shuo said the number seemed to be slightly higher than the Chinese analysts.

Mengqi Zhang and Yujia Han, the two global analysts of the energy monitor who wrote the report, said CNN that part of the reason is so high that the developers of Chinese renewal of renewable energies quickly expanded to claim state subsidies that expired in June.

“That's why the increase is coming before May,” said Han.

Most China's wind and solar parks are far from its largest cities. But in China's capital Beijing, the country's energy transition is obvious in other ways-it is difficult to find a gas-powered car that drives on the streets, said Shuo. Shuo recently visited Beijing and said almost all Uber drivers are driving.

“All drivers will tell you that it simply does not make an economic sense for you to buy another (gas) vehicle,” said Shuo. “Some of them told me that the fuel costs for driving an eV were about a sixth of a (gas) vehicle.”

Climate analysts in China are confident that the nation has reached its top oil consumption in view of the dramatic increase in EV use, said Shuo. However, the outstanding question is China's electricity sector, and whether the entire wind and the sun's rays that the country have installed in recent years can displace coal power. In the few months, China's increased demand for power was only pushed in by renewable energies, which means that the country has not increased its planetary pollution, even if it uses more power.

“There is still a great commitment to support coal, but overall what we are looking at is renewable energies that eat in the proportion of the generation of fossil fuels,” said Shuo.

In the United States, more expensive electricity could significantly hinder economic development and prevent companies from building here, which undermines one of Trump's own priorities. Since less wind and solar come online due to the GOP law, and long waiting times to put new natural gas systems into operation, said Rhodium -Analyst Ben King, some data centers and large production facilities could have difficulty getting enough electricity.

“Data centers, the production of semiconductors and other sources of new industrial loads, which may not be able to come online, since we may not have the generators to satisfy this demand,” said King.