China's power industry is characterized by fast growth and an enormous installed base. In 2013, it had the largest installed electricity generation capacity in the world. It has the largest thermal power capacity, the largest hydropower capacity, the largest wind power capacity and one of the largest solar capacity in the world. Despite an expected rapid increase in installed capacity scheduled in 2014 for both wind and solar, and expected increase to 60 GW in nuclear by 2020, coal will still account between 65% and 75% of capacity in 2020.[2]
Total installed capacity in 2013 was 1247 GW.[3]
Coal 801 GW[4]
Other thermal, natural gas, bio-mass 61 GW[5]
Hydropower capacity 280 GW[6]
Wind power capacity was 91.4 GW[7]
Solar power capacity was 18 GW[8]
Nuclear power capacity was 15.69 GW[9]
