China’s State Grid Focused on Ensuring Supply Over Green Goals

  • The utility delivers electricity to more than 80% of country
  • Executive Chairman Xin Baoan spoke at WEF in Tianjin Tuesday
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State Grid Corp. of China will prioritize preventing blackouts over its longer-term goal of decarbonizing the country’s power mix.

That was the message from Xin Baoan, executive chairman of the world’s largest utility, who spoke on a panel at the the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting of the New Champions in Tianjin on Tuesday.