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Elon Musk: “China's production capacity on Solar is 1500 gigawatts a…”

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Tesla CEO Elon Musk speaks at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland — 1/22/2026

Published | Video Starts at 14:20

China. China's. China's growth in electricity is tremendous. They're building hundred gigawatts of nuclear as. 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 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. (14:20–14:24)

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