Power grid installed capacity of northern China's Inner Mongolia autonomous region reached 100.36 GW as of December 25 this year, exceeding the 100 GW mark for the first time in history, according to Inner Mongolia Power Group Co., Ltd.
The new energy installed capacity accounted for 44.5% of the total. Thermal, wind, hydro and photovoltaic power installed capacity was 51.53 GW, 28.25 GW, 2.09 GW and 16.38 GW, respectively. Besides, the new energy storage installed capacity stood at 2.09 GW.
On November 16, Inner Mongolia's power grid achieved historic highs in both the new energy power load and output. The former reached 24.06 GW, accounting for 53.3% of the real-time load across the entire grid, while power generated from new energy stood at 430 GWh, representing 41.2% of the total power output on that day.
New energy has become the main source in power supply in Inner Mongolia. Since the beginning of this year, new energy power generation has hit record highs seven times in a row. The annual new energy power generation is expected to reach 85 TWh this year, increasing 22% on the year level.
The installed capacity of new energy sources in Inner Mongolia's grid surged nearly 272% from 12.01 GW to 44.63 GW since 2013.
Wind power utilization hours have risen to over 2,500 hours from less than 2,000 hours since 2016, and that of photovoltaic has increased to approximately 1,600 hours from less than 1,500 hours.
Inner Mongolia Power Group closely focused on the carbon peak and carbon neutrality targets under the deployment of the autonomous region, making efforts to promote the high-quality development of new energy.
(Writing by yan.sun Editing by Emma Yang)
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