always remember that installed capacity does not equal actual production. germany installed a ton of "capacity" and ended up using coal because their green energy projects all failed. in addition, look at where they want to build that out. one is in xinjiang, and the other two in inner mongolia. where no one lives. so most of the power produced is lost to transmission. in short, these are useless. so why do them? simple: asset disposal. they are making more panels than they can sell because they're dumping panels on the global market at unsustainable prices. but if no one buys them, they can't just scale back production since doing that means millions of people lose their jobs, which (it's a long story) could destroy their housing market completely and take their financial system down with it. so they figured it's better to build useless solar farms hundreds or thousands of miles from where they'd be useful because doing that is cheaper than bailing out the housing and financial sectors and supporting millions of unemployed people. it also keeps panel prices high enough that when global buyers do buy some, they make some money.
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