China's power generating capacity to reach 1b kw by 2020
Thursday, 1 November 2007
NANNING, Oct 31 (Xinhua): China's total installed power generation capacity could reach 1 billion kw by the year 2020, with total power consumption exceeding 6 trillion kwh, said Zhao Xizheng, president of China Electricity Council.
China's total installed powergen capacity reached 624 million kw in 2006, while total electricity consumption reached 2.82 trillion kwh. China's per capita electricity consumption in 2006, at 2,149 kwh, is about one-seventh of that in the United States, one- fourth of that in Japan and one-third of that in South Korea.
China's per capita domestic electricity consumption in 2006, at only 246 kwh, is roughly one-twentieth of that in the United States and one-tenth of that in Japan.
China's electricity demand is projected to maintain its current momentum in the next decade, spurred by industrialisation, urbanisation, marketisation and globalisation. Zhao predicts that China's total electricity consumption will pose an annual growth of 10 per cent between the year 2007 and 2010.
China's total installed powergen capacity reached 624 million kw in 2006, while total electricity consumption reached 2.82 trillion kwh. China's per capita electricity consumption in 2006, at 2,149 kwh, is about one-seventh of that in the United States, one- fourth of that in Japan and one-third of that in South Korea.
China's per capita domestic electricity consumption in 2006, at only 246 kwh, is roughly one-twentieth of that in the United States and one-tenth of that in Japan.
China's electricity demand is projected to maintain its current momentum in the next decade, spurred by industrialisation, urbanisation, marketisation and globalisation. Zhao predicts that China's total electricity consumption will pose an annual growth of 10 per cent between the year 2007 and 2010.