On September 19, the National Energy Administration released the "National Power Industry Statistics from January to August", which showed that the installed capacity of solar power generation from January to August was about 510 million kilowatts, an increase of 44.4% over the same period last year; The newly installed PV capacity in China is 113.16GW (113 million KW). For the first time, the annual installed capacity of photovoltaic
in China has exceeded 100 million kilowatts.
In addition, there were 907 hours of solar power generation from January to August, 40 hours less than same period last year; the completed investment in solar power generation projects was 187.3 billion yuan, an increase of 82.7% over the same period last year.
On September 19, the National Energy Administration released statistics on the national power industry from January to August.
By the end of August, the total installed capacity of power generation in China was about 2.76 billion kilowatts, up 11.9% year on year. Among them, the installed capacity of solar power was about 510 million kilowatts, representing a year-on-year increase of 44.4%; the installed capacity of wind power was about 400 million kilowatts, representing a year-on-year increase of 14.8%.
From January to August, the cumulative average utilization of power generation equipment in China was 2423 hours, 76 hours less than same period last year. Of which, 1,984 hours for hydropower, 469 hours less than same period last year; 907 hours for solar power, 40 hours less than same period last year; 5,116 hours for nuclear power, 121 hours more than same period last year; 1,538 hours for wind power, 79 hours more than same period last year; 2,999 hours for thermal power, 67 hours more than same period last year.
From January to August, China's major power generation enterprises invested 470.3 billion yuan in power supply projects, an increase of 46.6% over the same period last year. Among them, solar power was 187.3 billion yuan, up 82.7% year-on-year; nuclear power was 52.2 billion yuan, up 56.9% year-on-year; wind power was 114.9 billion yuan, up 38.7% year-on-year. Power grid projects completed investment of 270 billion 500 million yuan, an increase of 1.4% over the same period last year.
Note: 1. The electricity consumption of the whole society is full-caliber data, and the national power supply is dispatching caliber data. 2. In the column of "Year-on-year Growth", the indicator marked with * is the absolute amount; the indicator marked with ▲ is the percentage point.