More historic than coal-fired power! China | Power Generation | Historicity
According to data released by the National Energy Administration on July 31st, as of the end of June, China's installed capacity of renewable energy reached 1.322 billion kilowatts, historically surpassing coal-fired power, accounting for approximately 48.8% of China's total installed capacity.
Data shows that the total installed capacity of power generation in China has reached 2.71 billion kilowatts, a year-on-year increase of 10.8%. Among them, the installed capacity of hydropower is 418 million kilowatts, wind power is 389 million kilowatts, photovoltaic power is 470 million kilowatts, and biomass power is 43 million kilowatts.
With the rapid growth of the installed capacity of renewable energy, the demand for various regulatory power sources in the power system is growing rapidly. New energy storage projects are accelerating their implementation, and the installed capacity continues to increase rapidly. As of the end of June, the cumulative installed capacity of new energy storage systems in China has exceeded 17.33 million kilowatts/35.8 million kilowatt hours, with an average energy storage time of about 2 hours. From January to June, the newly put into operation installed capacity was approximately 8.63 million kilowatts/17.72 million kilowatt hours, equivalent to the total cumulative installed capacity of previous years.
In the first half of the year, the total electricity consumption of the whole society reached 4.3 trillion kilowatt hours, a year-on-year increase of 5%. The national renewable energy generation is 1.34 trillion kilowatt hours, of which wind and photovoltaic power generation is 729.1 billion kilowatt hours, a year-on-year increase of 23.5%.