Elon Musk: “China...deploying over a thousand gigawatts a year of solar.”

“We speak, actually, solar is the biggest thing in China. So China's, I believe China's production capacity on Solar is 1500 gigawatts a year. And they're deploying China...deploying over a thousand gigawatts a year of solar. Now you know, for continuous solar load, you divide that by roughly, I don't know, four or five. Call it, that's around 250 gigawatts of steady state power paired with batteries.” (14:08–14:30)

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