Hohhot fast-tracks new energy power generation
The development of new energy power generation in Hohhot city – capital of North China's Inner Mongolia autonomous region – is on the fast track, with its output increasing by more than eight times during the past decade, according to local media reports.
Since 2020, the sector has ushered in a period of rapid growth and last year, the growth rate of new energy power generation was as high as 53.8 percent.
Over the past 10 years, the scale and proportion of its installed capacity in Hohhot city have grown in leaps and bounds.
Last year, installed capacity reached 3.504 million kilowatts – which was 5.3 times the level in 2012 – with an average annual growth rate during the period of 22.7 percent.
The proportion of new energy installed capacity to total power generation installed capacity has increased from 6.7 percent in 2012 to 24 percent in 2021, an increase of 3.6 times.
Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China in 2012, Hohhot's new energy sources have achieved cumulative power generation of 29.8 billion kilowatt-hours.
The city's new energy power generation sector has replaced thermal power generation, saving about 12.3 million metric tons of raw coal – based on the calculation of the consumption of 295 grams of standard coal per unit of electricity in the past 10 years.
In addition, Hohhot has actively issued policies and measures to guide enterprises to make full use of existing vacant building roofs, factory open spaces and other areas to install solar power panels.
Plans are for the city to continue to vigorously develop its strategic green industries, making new energy power generation a new growth point for the local economy.