China’s State Council published a white paper titled China’s Energy Transition in late August, revealing that over the past decade, electricity generated from clean energy has accounted for more than half the country’s increase in total electricity consumption.
By the end of 2023, China’s cumulative installed capacities of wind and photovoltaic (PV) power grew by about 10 times in the decade and that clean energy accounted for 1,700 GW, or 58.2 percent of the total installed energy capacity. Meanwhile, China’s share of clean energy consumption has risen from 15.5 percent to 26.4 percent over the past 10 years, with coal consumption dropping by 12.1 percent.
In the same period, China has decommissioned more than 100 million GWs of outdated coal-fired power facilities, and reduced polluting emissions from the electricity industry by 90 percent. Compared to 2012, China’s energy consumption per GDP unit has reduced by over 26 percent in total.
According to the report, China has built complete industrial chains for the R&D, design and integrated manufacturing of wind and solar PV equipment and has adopted the most advanced technologies and strictest standards to ensure that the nuclear power units in operation remain safe and stable over a long period of time.
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