Beijing, Dec 25 (IANS) China’s electricity generation capacity will increase to 860 million kilowatts at the end of this year, the second largest after the US, an official said Friday.
The nation’s power grids coverage has become the world’s largest with fast expansion of ultra-high voltage network, Xinhua reported.

New energy, such as nuclear and wind power, played an increasingly important role, Zhang Guobao, head of the National Administration of Energy, said at a national-level meeting organised by the China Electricity Council.

The government has pledged to increase the capacity of new energy like nuclear and wind power to 15 percent of the total energy production in the country by 2020.