VCG Wind turbines in Haozhou City, east China's Anhui Province, April 25, 2025. /VCG China's installed capacity of wind and photovoltaic power reached 1.482 billion kilowatts by the end of March, surpassing thermal power capacity for the first time in history, official data showed Friday.
Hydropower accounted for 436 million kilowatts, wind power for 521 million kilowatts, solar power for 887 million kilowatts, and biomass power for 46 million kilowatts. Last year was the second year that China's cumulative installed capacity of renewable energy power generation has exceeded 50 percent of the country's total installed capacity.
China's solar and wind operating capacity has soared to 1.4 TW and now accounts for 44% of the world's operating utility-scale solar and wind capacity, more than the combined total of the European Union, United States, and India.
This is roughly four times the global average for capacity under construction (9%). China's wind capacity follows a similar rate of growth as solar, according to Global Energy Monitor's Global Wind Power Tracker, with over 590 GW in prospective phases — nearly 530 GW of onshore capacity and 63 GW of offshore capacity.
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BEIJING, April 25 -- China''s installed capacity of wind and photovoltaic power reached 1.482 billion kilowatts by the end of March, exceeding that of thermal power for the first time in history, official data
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