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China is struggling to keep up with power demand. A waste-to-energy <br>plant in Wuhan (Constellationevolution/CC BY 3.0)

China is struggling to keep up with power demand. A waste-to-energy
plant in Wuhan (Constellationevolution/CC BY 3.0)

China starts $3.9bn project to bring green power from remote areas

27-03-2024

China’s State Grid Corporation has started a $3.9-billion project to boost the ability of its national grid to deal with intermittent renewable power generation.
 
The project will string a 1,069-km ultra-high voltage transmission line from the sparsely populated Shaanxi province in the far northwest to the city of Hefei in Anhui province, about 150 km west of Shanghai, said a Global Construction Review report quoting Bloomberg.
 
This will bring wind and solar energy to population centres, and will be connected to a 1.2GW pumped hydro site that will store surplus electricity.
 
The 800kV line will accommodate an increasing amount of wind and solar energy. Last year, China added almost 220GW of solar and 75GW of wind capacity. This is 50GW more than the entire installed capacity of Germany, and brought the share of wind and solar in the Chinese energy mix to 50%, the report said.
 
Despite these advances, China remains reliant on coal-fired power stations, and last year opened many of them to generate almost 50GW. And despite its rapidly growing generating capacity, China’s power system is struggling to keep up with demand.
 
Last year, there were no large-scale power cuts, but periodic power shortages were experienced in the eastern provinces, the report added.



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