National Energy Administration: 2025 Solar Power Grid Connection Capacity to Reach 317 Million Kilowatts

IT Home, February 21 — Today, the National Energy Administration released the status of photovoltaic power construction for 2025. The new grid-connected capacity in 2025 is 317 million kilowatts, including 164 million kilowatts of centralized photovoltaic and 153 million kilowatts of distributed photovoltaic. By the end of 2025, the total grid-connected capacity will reach 1.2 billion kilowatts.

IT Home has learned that in 2025, China’s total social electricity consumption will reach 10.4 trillion kilowatt-hours, a year-on-year increase of 5%. This is the first time a single country’s annual electricity consumption has exceeded 10 trillion kilowatt-hours globally. In 2025, China’s total social electricity consumption will surpass twice the entire annual electricity consumption of the United States, and also exceed the combined annual electricity consumption of the European Union, Russia, India, and Japan.

By the end of 2025, the total installed power generation capacity nationwide will be 3.89 billion kilowatts, a year-on-year increase of 16.1%. Among them, solar power installed capacity will be 1.2 billion kilowatts, up 35.4% year-on-year; wind power installed capacity will be 640 million kilowatts, up 22.9%.