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China leads in steepest trend, but US is second (though much lower down)

Here's a chart per capita, which is often more interesting:

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/solar-electricity-per-cap...

bit misleading not to add the top two (Australia and Netherlands)

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/solar-electricity-per-cap...

That's generation per capita, not installed capacity per capita.

And India at #4 is one to watch. There are a lot of people there who will benefit from cheap energy.

It is a bit funny how Germany seems to be floundering thanks to the Energiewende. In hindsight it looks like a clear mistake to have gone in so hard without waiting until it made economic sense.

Take a look at a map, India is far, far more to the south than Germany. I have the feeling that some Germans would see solar power as a panacea even if they lived on the north pole.

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