China is now the world’s biggest producer of solar energy by capacity, according to the National Energy Administration (NEA).
Installed PV capacity rose to 77.42 gigawatts at the end of 2016, with the addition of 34.54 gigawatts over the course of the year.
NEA’s solar power development plan states that China will add more than 110 gigawatts of capacity in the 2016-2020 period.
Solar plants generated 66.2 billion kilowatt-hours of power last year, accounting for 1 percent of China’s total power generation, the NEA said.
The country aims to boost the mix of non-fossil fuel generated power to 20 percent by 2030 from 11 percent today.
China plans to plough 2.5 trillion yuan ($364 billion) into renewable power generation by 2020.
