HONG KONG: China's installed capacity of solar power and wind power climbed by 45.2% and 18%, respectively, in 2024, the National Energy Administration said on Tuesday, as the country seeks to ramp up renewable energy use and upgrade its power system.
Last August, China's state planner unveiled a three-year plan to upgrade the power system, increasing its use of renewable energy and easing the strain of rising power demand on the national grid.
Installed capacity of solar power reached 890 million kilowatts, while wind power touched 520 million kilowatts, the administration said.
Total installed power generation capacity in 2024 increased by 14.6% year-on-year, reaching 3.35 billion kilowatts.
For 2025, Greenpeace analysts said renewable power could meet all of China's new power demand growth. That would "pave the way for China's power sector to achieve peak emissions by 2025", according to Greenpeace East Asia Beijing-based project leader Gao Yuhe. Last year was the warmest ever for China since record-keeping began six decades ago, according to the meteorological data. - Reuters
