All that being said China does not have the natural resources WE have here in North America. Meaning they have to import almost all their petroleum products. They also do not have much natural gas. They do have coal, but it is not nearly as good of quality as the coal here in the USA or elsewhere like Australia or Malaysia.
China has some big rivers that they have dammed. Like the Three Gorges dam.
China has also built a lot of huge solar arrays to generate electricity.
My point is China has to make choices in generating power by multiple means. They do not have 250 years worth of Methane that they can pump out of the ground in Asia. We do.
They also have to import oil. We don't as much.
So, maybe the reason they are building all these wind turbines and solar arrays is that they don't have a choice to power their country.
I wouldn’t think China would be installing them IF they didn’t actually provide power in an economically feasible way.
The article does provide the answer to why China might be spending billions on this uneconomic endeavor. Xi wants it!
“Energy is a strategic issue in development — our pioneering development of wind power and solar technology has proved to be forward-looking,” Xi Jinping, China’s top leader, said in late March. . . . In a speech in July, Mr. Xi urged China to “promote the orderly and well-regulated expansion of offshore wind power.”
It looks like Xi is no better at doing basic arithmetic or physics than the morons who are in charge of climate policy here in New York. And in China, nobody dares to speak up and contradict Xi, no matter how obviously wrong he may be.