China’s Clean Energy Exceeds 20% of Power Generation in 2015
- Idled wind power rose 69% in 2015 from previous year
- China saw idle solar capacity emerge in 2015 in northwest
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China’s renewable energy, including from hydropower, accounted for a combined 24.5 percent of the nation’s power generation in 2015, even though grid congestion meant that electricity from some projects was wasted.
About 19.6 percent of China’s total power generation came from hydropower plants, with 3.3 percent from wind, and 0.7 percent from solar, the National Energy Administration said in a report posted on its website. The share from biomass power was 0.2 percentage points higher than from solar even though capacity was about a quarter of total photovoltaic installations.