They have a fair bit of wind, solar power etc but it's underused from what I understand. Mainly due to, from what I've read from a few people, local corruption. There's more back handers from buying energy from coal power stations near by the big city centres rather than wind and solar which is from the far west where there's little demand for electricity.
I'm surprised they don't have lots of tidal and offshore energy off the coast of China. Perhaps they have low winds and low tides. They seem quite capable of building off shore islands in other parts of the Pacific, so it's not a lack of knowledge.
I see Denmark is doing something similar, some of sort of island with solar panels and wind turbines on it being built in the North Sea.
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