WenzhouTyphoon Bavi stripped solar panels from Zhejiang roofs in July.
Clean plants built to slow warming now face the extreme weather it brings, experts say.
Global research shows solar output falls 0.5% per 1C above 25C and winds figure in over half of turbine collapses.
China’s standards already require panel frames to withstand once-in-50-years winds, and the industry designs for 216 kmph.
Experts say the long-term effects of shifting sunshine, wind and rainfall patterns are unpredictable.
How each outlet framed it
- Dialogue Earth
- uses a Wenzhou homeowner who stripped his rooftop panels before Typhoon Bavi to show weather risk to China's solar fleet
Sources: Dialogue Earth