The installed generating capacity of new energy, including wind and solar power, in China's far western Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region is expected to nearly double to 43 GW by 2020, Xinjiang Grid said Monday.
By the end of 2015, Xinjiang had 16.9 GW of wind generating capacity and 5.3 GW of solar. Its total power generating capacity was 65.8 GW.
Xinjiang Grid bought 19.4 billion kwh of electricity generated by new energy last year, 10.3 percent of its total purchase.
It exported some new energy-generated power to meet growth in local demand.
It transmitted 1.5 billion kwh of wind-generated electricity, up 19 percent year on year, to other regions, reducing coal burning by 521,600 tonnes.
