China’s renewable energy trading pilot opened on Tuesday under the auspices of the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC). The scheme allows end users to directly trade with wind and solar generators, with hydropower and other clean power sources possibly to be included in the near future. On the first day, the transaction volume of wind and solar energy reached 7.935 TWh, with 259 buyers and sellers participating. Of the total sold, 6.9 TWh was sold on the northern part of the market, suggesting a bias in favour of photovoltaics, with 1.53 TWh of solar power being bought in just the province of Ningxia for the years from 2022 to 2026. Even within the southern part of the market, where…