Beyond water and electricity! Photovoltaic has become the second largest power source in China.

On April 23, the National Energy Administration released statistics on the national power industry from January to March.

By the end of March, the total installed capacity of power generation in China was about 2.62 billion kilowatts, up 9.1% year-on-year. Of which, the installed capacity of wind power was approximately 380 million kilowatts, representing a year-on-year increase of 11.7%; the installed capacity of solar power was approximately 430 million kilowatts, representing a year-on-year increase of 33.7% .

From January to March, the cumulative average utilization of power generation equipment in China was 868 hours, 31 hours less than same period last year. In particular, there were 544 hours of hydropower, a decrease of 92 hours over the same period last year; 1,097 hours of thermal power, a decrease of 18 hours over the same period last year; 615 hours of wind power, an increase of 61 hours over the same period last year; 1,864 hours of nuclear power, an increase of 17 hours over the same period last year; and 303 hours of solar power, an increase of 3 hours over the same period last year.

From January to March, the investment in power supply projects of major power generation enterprises in China was 126.4 billion yuan, an increase of 55.2% over the same period last year. Among them, solar power was 52.2 billion yuan, up 177.6% year-on-year; nuclear power was 16.1 billion yuan, up 53.5% year-on-year. Power grid projects completed investment of 66.8 billion yuan, an increase of 7.5% over the same period last year.

Among them, in terms of cumulative installed capacity of power generation, the installed capacity of solar power generation is about 430 million kilowatts, an increase of 33.7% over the previous year, surpassing 420 million kilowatts of hydropower and becoming the second largest power source in China.

In addition, from January to March, the newly installed capacity of hydropower was 2.71 GW, thermal power was 8.05 GW, nuclear power was 1.19 GW and wind power was 10.4G W. The newly installed capacity of solar power generation was 33.66 GW, ranking first among the major power sources, with a year-on-year growth of 154.81%, significantly surpassing other power sources. List of

statistical data of

the national power industry Note: 1. The electricity consumption of the whole society is the full-caliber data, and the national power supply is the dispatching caliber data. 2. In the column of "Year-on-year Growth", the indicators marked with * are absolute quantities; the indicators marked with ▲ are percentage points.