On September 5, the "People's Daily" released my country's non-fossil energy power generation installed capacity data. Data show that as of the end of July, my country's non-fossil energy power generation installed capacity was 1.03 billion kilowatts, an increase of 18.0% year-on-year, equivalent to the installed capacity of more than 40 Three Gorges power stations, accounting for 45.5% of the country's total installed power generation capacity, an increase of 3.3 percentage points year-on-year. my country's clean and low-carbon process has been accelerating, and a number of indicators such as hydropower, wind power, photovoltaics, and nuclear power under construction have maintained the number one position in the world.

——The supply capacity of clean energy continues to expand. Looking at the scale of installed capacity, as of the end of July, my country’s installed hydropower capacity was 380 million kilowatts, a year-on-year increase of 4.9%; nuclear power installed capacity was 53.26 million kilowatts, a year-on-year increase of 9.2%; wind power installed capacity was 290 million kilowatts, a year-on-year increase of 34.4%; solar power installed capacity was 2.7 Billion kilowatts, a year-on-year increase of 23.6%; biomass power generation capacity was 34.09 million kilowatts, a year-on-year increase of 31.2%. Looking at the total amount of power generation, in the first half of the year, the cumulative power generation of hydropower, nuclear power, wind power, and solar power increased by 10.2% year-on-year. Looking at power investment, in the first 7 months, the completed investment in clean energy such as hydropower, nuclear power, and wind power accounted for 91.7% of the completed investment in power.
——The level of clean energy utilization continues to improve. In the first half of the year, the water energy utilization rate of major river basins nationwide was 98.43%, the national average wind power utilization rate was 96.4%, and the national average photovoltaic power generation utilization rate was 97.9%, an increase of 0.07, 0.3, and 0.07 percentage points respectively over the same period of the previous year.
——The layout of wind power and photovoltaic installations has been continuously optimized. Development and construction have been promoted from resource-concentrated areas to load-concentrated areas, and shifted from centralized and contiguous development to simultaneous development of centralized and decentralized development. From the perspective of newly installed wind power capacity in the first half of the year, the central and eastern and southern regions accounted for about 59%, and the "Three Norths" region accounted for about 41%. In terms of photovoltaics, the regions with high new installed capacity in the first half of the year were North China, East China and Central China, which accounted for 44%, 22% and 14% of the country’s new installed capacity, respectively. The newly-added installed capacity of household photovoltaic projects is 5.86 million kilowatts, accounting for 45% of the newly-added photovoltaic installed capacity, which has become a bright spot.
——The clean and efficient utilization of coal power is vigorously promoted. As of the end of last year, the proportion of coal-fired power installed capacity fell below 50% for the first time, and coal-fired power generating units with ultra-low emissions reached approximately 950 million kilowatts. In the first seven months of this year, the national coal consumption rate for power supply was 303 g/kWh, a year-on-year decrease of 1 g/kWh.
The head of the National Energy Administration stated that the next step is to accelerate the pace of coal reduction, strictly control coal power projects; accelerate the development of non-fossil energy power generation such as wind power and solar power, and continue to expand the supply of green and low-carbon energy. Wind power photovoltaics during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period To become the main force of clean energy growth
News source: People's Daily