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Re:Photos Capture the Breathtaking Scale of China's Wind and... by sien on Thursday January 15, 2026 @06:40PM (#46641072)
Australia has the highest per capita solar capacity in the world :

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_power_by_country#Global_...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_power_in_Australia

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Re:Photos Capture the Breathtaking Scale of China's Wind and... by AnotherGoodName on Thursday January 15, 2026 @10:11PM (#46642563)
Also ridiculously far ahead on grid connected battery storage.

https://elements.visualcapitalist.com/top-20-countries-by-ba...

Australia > all of Europe (yes all of Europe, not just EU) combined on that one.

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Re:Photos Capture the Breathtaking Scale of China's Wind and... by sensanaty on Friday January 16, 2026 @06:50AM (#46645527)
To be fair Australia also has approximately infinitely more sun than most of Europe does. But true, we could be doing a lot better in the EU regardless
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Re:Photos Capture the Breathtaking Scale of China's Wind and... by sien on Monday January 19, 2026 @03:56PM (#46684387)
The thing to look at is C02 equivalent emissions from electricity generation.

Despite Australia's high solar and battery penetration Australia's electricity generation is fairly high emissions.

https://app.electricitymaps.com/map/5y/monthly

France and Sweden have considerably lower emission electricity generation than Australia does.

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