Stifling China’s green energy boom would be a disaster

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Does the government in Beijing have the courage to throw its weight behind what business is already doing?

The writer is an FT contributing editor and writes the Chartbook newsletter Since the Biden administration passed the Inflation Reduction Act in 2022, we have been worrying about a green industrial subsidy race. Talk about Chinese “overcapacity” has perpetuated that narrative. Competitive subsidies may entail a waste of real resources and taxpayers’ money. Tariffs on solar panels and electric vehicles risk spilling over into a wider trade war.

China’s green energy investment in photovoltaic technology, batteries, new energy vehicles and long-range ultra-high voltage transmission is the first to achieve the scale at which it truly begins to transform the economic landscape as a whole. In 2023, according to calculations by the CREA think-tank, green energy investment was the single largest driver of China’s economic growth.

 

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