2023-12-26 00:29:00
Xinhua 26.12.2023 08h29
China’s renewable energy generation capacity has surpassed that of thermal power for the first time, constituting more than half of the country’s installed power generation capacity, according to official data.
The installed capacity of renewable energy generation, which includes wind power, solar power, hydropower and biomass energy, totaled 1.45 billion kilowatts, according to the National Energy Administration. ‘energy.
The country’s total power generation capacity reached around 2.9 billion kilowatts, an increase of 12.9 percent year-on-year.
As part of the country’s efforts to accelerate the development of wind and solar energy, the combined power generation capacity of these two types of energy has exceeded 1 billion kilowatts, maintaining a significant share of generation capacity of newly installed electricity, according to the administration.
According to the data, renewable energy currently provides about a third of the country’s total electricity consumption, with wind and solar combined accounting for more than 15% of total electricity consumption.
(Web editor: Ying Xie, Yishuang Liu)
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