China's power generation up 1.9 pct in July

China's major power plants generated 680.1 billion kilowatt-hours of power in July, up 1.9 percent year on year, data showed.

According to the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), the growth rate is 4.6 percentage points lower than that of June.

Among them, the country's absolute thermal power generation was 460 billion kilowatt-hours, dropped 0.7% year on year, and compared with 5.4% increase in June; Absolute hydropower output reached 146.3 billion kilowatt hours, up 6.1% year on year and 0.8 percentage points less than that of the previous month. Nuclear power generated 33.4 billion kilowatt-hours, up 6.7% year on year and 6.9 percentage points less than the previous month. Absolute wind power generation reached 28.3 billion kilowatt-hours, up 23.2 percent year-on-year and 7.4 percentage points higher than the previous month. Absolute solar power output fell 0.6 percent year on year to 12.2bn KWH, compared with a 5.8 percent rise in June.

On a month-on-month basis, China's electricity output in July increased by 49.7 billion KWH, or 7.88%. Thermal power generation increased by 27.7 billion KWH month-on-month, or 6.41%. Hydroelectric power generation increased by 24.8 billion KWH month-on-month, with an increase of 20.41%. Nuclear power generation increased by 1.6 billion KWH month-on-month, with an increase of 5.03%. Wind power generation dropped by 4.1 billion KWH month-on-month, or 12.65%. Solar power generation dropped by 200 million KWH month-on-month, or 1.61%.

During the first seven months of the year, China's major power plants generated about 4.05 trillion kilowatt-hours of power, down 0.9 percent over the same period last year. The decline narrowed by half a percentage point from the previous six months.

Among them, the country's absolute thermal power generation was 2,895.7 billion KWH, down 1.5 percent year-on-year; The absolute hydropower output was 621.7 billion kilowatt hours, decreased by 4.7% year-on-year; Nuclear power generated 205 billion kilowatt-hours, up 7.1% year on year. The absolute power generation capacity of wind power was 240.6 billion kilowatt-hours, up 8.5 percent year on year. Solar power generated 82.1 billion kilowatt-hours in absolute terms, up 7.5% year on year.

In July 2020, China's average daily power generation reached 21.94 billion KWH, an increase of 930 million KWH month-on-month.