{"id":424415,"date":"2021-07-05T15:11:07","date_gmt":"2021-07-05T09:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=424415"},"modified":"2021-07-05T15:11:07","modified_gmt":"2021-07-05T09:41:07","slug":"renewable-power-covers-29-of-chinas-electricity-usage-in-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/renewable-power-covers-29-of-chinas-electricity-usage-in-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Renewable power covers 29% of China&#8217;s electricity usage in 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Renewable power sources covered 28.8% of China&#8217;s electricity consumption in 2020, up 1.3 percentage points from 2019, the country&#8217;s National Energy Administration (NEA) said in a statement on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>China&#8217;s state planner in 2016 launched a scheme asking grid firms in some northern and northwestern to buy electricity generated by solar and wind power stations. President Xi Jinping has vowed to make China &#8220;carbon neutral&#8221; by 2060, and to boost the share of non-fossil fuels in primary energy consumption to around 25% by 2030 from a previous commitment of 20%.<\/p>\n<p>According to a draft plan seen by Reuters in February, the central government planned to force regional grid firms to buy at least 40% of power from non-fossil fuel sources by 2030.<\/p>\n<p>The NEA statement showed that average wind power utilisation rates were 97% in 2020, exceeding the target set by central government by 2 percentage points, while average solar power utilisation rates were 98%, 3 percentage higher than the target.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Renewable power sources covered 28.8% of China&#8217;s electricity consumption in 2020, up 1.3 percentage points from 2019, the country&#8217;s National Energy Administration (NEA) said in a statement on Monday. China&#8217;s state planner in 2016 launched a scheme asking grid firms in some northern and northwestern to buy electricity generated by solar and wind power stations. President Xi Jinping has vowed to make China &#8220;carbon neutral&#8221; by 2060, and to boost the share of non-fossil fuels in primary energy consumption to around 25% by 2030 from a previous commitment of 20%. According to a draft plan seen by Reuters in February, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[132],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-424415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-power"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=424415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424415\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}