From a switching station to the pylon appreciation society and UHV build-out
Exploring Energy in China II.
Out of the four Stratnergy themes, “Energy in China” is taking longest to develop. While I’ve started to explore Chinese energy news, I haven’t yet got a sense of structure to develop thoughts around.
When in doubt, start from personal experience. So here’s a second small step towards “Energy in China” starting from a chance encounter with what I thought was a substation but turned out to be a switching station. This post picks up threads from Quanzhou…
Exploring Energy in China I.
I’m in China at the moment and I've started thinking about the energy system here. I’ve been travelling to China almost every year for the last 12 years, with a break during the Covid-19 pandemic, but I've never thought much about the Chinese energy system. Never too late. Here's an attempt to make a start from an initial set of thoughts and links towar…
Earlier this year in October, walking the streets of Quanzhou (泉州) with energy on my mind, a sign on a building that looked slightly out of place caught my eye. Even without recognising most of the characters this was clearly a building related to energy infrastructure.
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