China's power capacity set to top 5 billion kW by 2030

China's total installed power generation capacity is expected to exceed 5 billion kilowatts (kW) by the end of the 15th Five-Year Plan period (2026-2030), Ye Jing, an official at the China Electricity Council (CEC), said at a press conference on July 30 in Beijing.

National installed power capacity reached 4.01 billion kW by the end of May -- making China the world's first country to cross the 4-billion-kW threshold -- and rose further to 4.04 billion kW by end-June, according to data from the National Energy Administration (NEA). Meanwhile, solar capacity had caught up