Back in 2020, China installed 48 GW of solar power, which made it the world’s biggest market, equal to around a third of global installations. In the single month of May 2025, it installed more than twice that amount, 92.9 GW, which brought China’s national total to 1.08 TW of solar capacity (alongside 540 GW of wind power, which generates about as much power as the solar). The global capacity of solar only reached 2 TW in November, so China has only narrowly missed out on amassing 50% of all solar capacity worldwide. China also has 1 TW of solar production capacity, which produced 753 GW of solar wafers in 2024, a figure which will be much the same in…