All of China’s 31 provinces have now issued renewable energy targets for the 14th Five-Year Plan which will be brought into force this March, lasting from 2021 to 2025. There’s 316.5 GW targeted from just 16 provinces, suggesting that the next Five-Year Plan will start with 600 GW to 700 GW already on the cards just from local targets; even Tibet has a 10 GW solar target. It’s the types of renewables being aimed for which are perhaps more interesting than the raw numbers. Where the current 13th Five-Year Plan has been referred to as a “pilot project phase” in some Chinese media, the upcoming 14th Five-Year Plan period has been called the “implementation phase” in contrast. A lot of…