China's installed capacity of electric power reached 713 million
kilowatts at the end of 2007, up from 622 million kilowatts in
2006, maintaining an overall balance of supply and demand, the
country's electricity council said on Sunday.
After two generating units with a capacity of one million
kilowatts in Tianwan nuclear power plant went into operation, the
installed capacity of nuclear power rose to 8.85 million kilowatts
at the end of 2007. Tianwan nuclear power plant, the largest
nuclear power station in Asia, is located in the city of
Lianyungang, eastern China's Jiangsu province.
The country's installed capacity of hydropower and thermal power
climbed to 145 million and 554 million kilowatts, both up more than
10 percent year-on-year.
Wind power capacity doubled to 4.03 million kilowatts.
(Xinhua News Agency January 14, 2008)
