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China's newly commissioned coal-fired power plants dropped 25%
Chinese players are hardest hit as coal’s glory days come to a close.
China's newly commissioned coal-fired power plants dropped 25%
Chinese players are hardest hit as coal’s glory days come to a close.
China Guodian, Shenhua Group merger gets approved
The combined utility's total capacity will hit 225GW.
Rosatom begins fuel loading at Tianwan-3 nuclear power plant
It plans connecting to the grid by end-2017.
China approves unified nuclear reactor brand
Hualong One reactor eyes competing against Areva and Westinghouse.
Asia's renewables capacity to more than double by 2026
Asia's share in global renewables capacity will surge to 48%.
China's solar capacity hits 24.4GW in 1H2017
Cumulative capacity has now crossed 100GW.
China's Shenhua, Guodian merger to create world's largest power utility company
Their total installed capacities will sit at 225GW.
China Three Gorges Corp kicks off construction of 16GW power station
The Baihetan hydropower station will have 6 generating units of 1000MW each.
Chinese coal-fired plants' utilisation hours to drop to 4,000 hours in 2017
This is despite a slight recover in 1H17.
China's wind power capacity to grow 40% to 290GW by 2020
Whilst solar capacity is predicted to more than double.
China's 1,087MW Fuqing-4 gets plugged in to the grid
It's the 37th Chinese operational power reactor.
China installed 24.4GW of solar in 2017's first half
A whopping 13.5GW of this was installed in June.
China's Fuqing-4 nuclear plant achieves first criticality
Fuel loading began in June 2017.
China's massive solar ambition dimmed by transmission challenges
Its ambitious target of 110GW by 2020 is achievable, but it won't be lighting up a lot of homes.
China Three Gorges Corp inks deal for 2.1GW hydropower project in Zhejiang
Voith will supply two 350MW units for the US$1.5b project.
China's State Power Investment Corporation targets 170GW of installed capacity
The goal is set for 2020.
These are the coal kings of the world
And China is still among the giants who keep building.