China Southern Power Grid said the five regions that it covers have consumed 540 billion kilowatt-hours of clean energy during the first nine months, with the renewable energy generation efficiency reaching 99.81 percent, up 0.22 percent year-on-year. Newly added installation of new energy reached 3.31 million kWs.
China Southern Power Grid (“Southern Grid”) is one of China’s two major state-owned power distributors that serve five southern provinces: Guangdong, Guangxi, Yunnan, Guizhou and Hainan. The region has witnessed a rapid build-up of power generation capacity, from 275 GW in 2015 to 350 GW in 2020.
Decarbonization of the Southern Power Grid in China is feasible by 2060 but requires converting a large cropland area to support solar and wind energy; expansion of hydropower will impact the transboundary rivers according to a power system optimization model set up for 2020–2060.
[Photo/Xinhua] China Southern Power Grid, one of the country's two major power grids, vowed to invest 670 billion yuan ($105 billion) recently in grid network construction during the 14th Five-Year Plan period (2021-25) to ensure power supply stability and boost green power consumption.
State Grid Corp of China, the largest power provider in the country, also pledged to invest 2.23 trillion yuan in the power grid, which means the country's total grid network investment will soar to 3 trillion yuan during the 2021-25 period. Both companies vowed to increase power supplies while implementing power price reforms.
According to the IEA’s estimates, the currently projected deployment of solar would raise globally installed capacity from 1,550 GW in 2023 to 5,023 GW by 2030. Deploying the ‘spare’ solar capacity of 3,837 GW in addition to this would raise the global installed capacity in 2030 by over 75%, to a total of 8,855 GW.