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China's installed electricity generation capacity reached 2.71 TW by the end of June, a 10.8% rise from a year earlier, showed data from the National Energy Administration (NEA) on July 19.
This came after 2.67 TW by the end of May, suggesting 40 GW of capacity was installed in June.
Wind installed capacity was 389.21 GW by end-June, up 13.7% year on year, and solar capacity rose 39.8% to 470.67 GW, the NEA data showed.
Hydropower installations totaled 417.93 GW, a 4.5% rise from a year ago, and nuclear capacity increased 2.2% to 56.76 GW.
Thermal power capacity reached 1.36 TW, a 3.8% rise year on year.
In the first half of this year, raw coal consumption for heating was registered at 186.82 million tonnes, up 5.5% from the previous year.
In January-June, utilization of all power generation units averaged 1,733 hours, down 44 hours compared to the same half of 2022.
By source, hydro- and solar-based units declined 452 hours and 32 hours to 1,238 hours and 658 hours, respectively. The operation of thermal and wind units gained 84 hours and 83 hours respectively to 2,142 and 1,237 hours. Nuclear power utilization increased 97 hours to 3,770 hours, data showed.
China invested a total of 331.9 billion yuan in power projects during this period, a 53.8% rise year on year. Investment on solar farm surged 113.6% from the year-ago level to 134.9 billion yuan and nuclear power rose 56.1% to 359 billion yuan. The investment on grid projects rose 7.8% on the year to 205.4 billion yuan.
(Writing by Riley Liang Editing by Emma Yang)
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