China added almost twice as much utility-scale solar and wind power capacity in 2023 than in any other year. By the first quarter of 2024, China’s total utility-scale solar and wind capacity reached 758 GW, though data from China Electricity Council put the total capacity, including distributed solar, at 1,120 GW.
China's State Grid, one of the country's two grid operators, proposed the technology to the government in 2004 to connect the country's hydro and coal power stations with the economic hubs that gobbled electricity hundreds of miles away.
Wind and solar now account for 37% of the total power capacity in the country, an 8% increase from 2022, and widely expected to surpass coal capacity, which is 39% of the total right now, in 2024. Cumulative annual utility-scale solar & wind power capacity in China, in gigawatts (GW)
The technology acts as a key component in China's proposal to build a global power grid, known as the Global Energy Interconnection. The idea – announced by China's president Xi Jinping at a United Nations summit in 2015 – is to link up national grids over the next three decades.
While the increases in renewable capacity in Europe, the United States and Brazil hit all-time highs, China’s acceleration was extraordinary. In 2023, China commissioned as much solar PV as the entire world did in 2022, while its wind additions also grew by 66% year-on-year.
Minsheng Securities said the country's power grid investment scale will witness a substantial increase during the 14th Five-Year Plan (2021-25) period, while intelligent distribution networks and digitized transformations will be key. State Grid has for years been accelerating construction of the power grid.
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