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Last year China installed more than half of all wind and solar added globally. In May alone, it added enough renewable energy to power Poland, installing solar panels at a rate of roughly 100 every second.<\/p>\n
The massive buildout is happening across the country, from crowded eastern cities increasingly topped by rooftop solar panels to remote western deserts where colossal wind farms sprawl across the landscape.<\/p>\n
\u201cFrom the ground, it\u2019s hard to grasp the scale of these power plants,\u201d said Chinese photographer Weimin Chu. \u201cBut when you rise into the air, you can see the geometry, the rhythm \u2014 and their relationship with the mountains, the desert, the sea.\u201d<\/p>\n
Chu has spent three years capturing the shift underway using drones to photograph power plants from overhead. His work, which draws from the visual language of traditional Chinese ink paintings, was featured last year in an award-winning exhibition, presented by Greenpeace. A selection of those photos is reproduced here.<\/p>\n
\u201cI started out just shooting landscapes,\u201d Chu said. \u201cBut when I traveled to places like Guizhou, Yunnan, and Qinghai in 2022, I kept seeing wind farms and solar power plants appear in my camera frame. I realized this is the story of our time \u2014 and almost no one is documenting it in a systematic way.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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