en.Wedoany.com Reported - On June 22, with the successful grid connection of Unit 9 at Longyuan Power's Hainan Qiyuan Offshore Wind Farm, the total installed power generation capacity of China Energy Investment Corporation (CHN Energy) surpassed 400 GW. Currently, the national total installed power generation capacity is approximately 4,000 GW, with CHN Energy's installed capacity accounting for about one-tenth of the national total, playing a pivotal role in ensuring stable national power supply and maintaining energy security.
In recent years, driven by rapid economic and social development and continuous improvement in people's living standards, total electricity consumption in China has been rising steadily. In 2025, electricity consumption exceeded 10 trillion kWh for the first time globally. As a key central state-owned energy enterprise, CHN Energy has deeply implemented the new energy security strategy, adhering to the principle of "coal as the foundation, electricity as the core." It focuses on deploying clean and efficient coal power projects near load centers, advancing the construction of large-scale clean energy bases such as the "solar, desert, and Gobi" (Sha Ge Huang) bases in the northwest, hydro-wind-solar projects in the southwest, and offshore wind farms along the coast, leading to continuous growth in installed power generation capacity. Following the milestone of exceeding 300 GW in total installed capacity in August 2023, CHN Energy's total installed capacity reached the 400 GW level in June 2026, setting a new global record for installed power generation capacity among energy enterprises. Among this, its thermal power and wind power installed capacities both rank first in the world, with renewable energy installed capacity accounting for over 41%.
CHN Energy's 400 GW installed power generation capacity is the result of iterative upgrades between old and new growth drivers and the deep implementation of green transformation, reflecting comprehensive strength that balances scale, quality, and resilience. As of the end of May 2026, the group had put 65 ultra-supercritical coal power units of 1,000 MW class into operation, accounting for nearly 30% of the national total of similar units, maintaining a leading position in the industry for efficient and clean coal power. Its wind power installed capacity continues to lead globally, with the construction of multiple million-kilowatt wind power clusters, forming large-scale wind power bases covering regions such as the northwest, north, and northeast China. Solar photovoltaic (PV) installed capacity has achieved leapfrog growth, with the deployment of several large-scale PV bases in desert, Gobi, and barren areas in the northwest. In river basins such as the Dadu River, Jinsha River, and Kaidu River, the group is advancing the cascading development of hydropower stations, ranking first among comparable enterprises in hydropower under construction. The scale and growth rate of its green energy installed capacity are both at the forefront of the industry. Meanwhile, the group is actively exploring new development models such as integrated wind-solar-storage-hydrogen systems and coordinated source-grid-load-storage systems. It has built a total new energy storage capacity of 8.01 GW/19.21 GWh, continuously enhancing its renewable energy consumption and regulation capabilities.
Within this 400 GW total installed capacity, the Beilun Power Plant and Anji Gas Power Plant rank as the world's largest thermal power plant and China's largest and most efficient gas power unit, respectively. The second-phase project of the Changzhou Power Plant in Jiangsu is China's first major technical equipment project in the energy sector to align with the new generation coal power indicator system. The 1,000 MW offshore PV project of CHN Energy's Guohua Investment in Shandong is the world's first and largest grid-connected open-sea PV project, and it is currently the only true offshore PV project globally located in open waters with three-dimensional usage and layered rights allocation. The Tengger "Sha Ge Huang" New Energy Base in Ningxia is China's first and largest 10 GW-level "Sha Ge Huang" base, providing replicable and scalable experience for the construction of global "Sha Ge Huang" new energy bases. The Shuangjiangkou Hydropower Station on the Dadu River, featuring the world's highest dam, integrates cutting-edge technologies such as 5G, BeiDou, AI, and digital twins to overcome construction challenges in high-altitude, cold regions, offering a replicable "digital construction" solution for similar global projects.
While continuously increasing installed capacity, CHN Energy is also driving technological innovation, management upgrades, and model iteration in the power industry. In power engineering construction, it has established a full-chain management and control system, formulated over a hundred industry construction standards, and multiple projects have won national quality awards, setting numerous industry construction records. The 4 GW new energy project in the coal mining subsidence area of Lingwu, Ningxia, pioneered advanced technologies such as regional large-scale PV intelligent control integrated systems, intelligent monitoring and early warning for coal mining subsidence areas, and GW-level PV smart engineering, filling the gap in empirical base construction for "Sha Ge Huang" cold-temperate climates in the Yellow River bend region. The 1 GW wind-solar-hydrogen-storage project in Fengning, Chengde, under CHN Energy's Guohua Investment, pioneered the "Design, Installation, and Innovative Application of Wind-Solar-Hydrogen Smart Energy Storage Systems," innovatively constructing an integrated system solution featuring multi-energy complementarity, intelligent regulation, safety, and efficiency, providing a demonstration model for the planning and construction of multi-energy complementary integrated bases.
In the field of core technology breakthroughs, CHN Energy has ventured into "uncharted territory" and tackled "bottleneck" challenges. Leveraging big data, cloud computing, and IoT technologies, it has built the "Cornerstone" intelligent dispatch platform, enabling efficient dispatch of 400 GW of diverse energy sources. It was the first to release the "Qingyuan" billion-parameter AI large model for the power generation industry, which is widely applied in scenarios such as unit operation and maintenance, energy consumption optimization, and fault diagnosis, significantly improving the accuracy of equipment fault prediction. Focusing on the intelligent transformation of traditional energy sectors like thermal and hydropower, it has released the "Cloud-based Hydropower" smart platform and built a number of smart power plant demonstration projects. Several power plants have been included in the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology's "5G Factory List." By incorporating technologies such as digital twins, smart sensors, and unmanned inspections, the group has achieved real-time monitoring of unit operating status, precise fault prediction, and autonomous optimization and regulation, driving the transformation of power production from traditional models to intelligent, efficient, and refined operations. This injects continuous innovative momentum into building a new power system, leading the entire power industry toward a cleaner, more efficient, intelligent, and safer direction.
Relying on the rapid growth of installed capacity and the continuous advancement of new power system construction, CHN Energy has built a full-chain collaborative system from energy production to transportation and consumption, forming a robust, stable, and reliable energy supply capability. Its annual power generation has exceeded 1.2 trillion kWh for two consecutive years, and its annual heat supply reaches 5.7 billion GJ, each accounting for one-eighth of the national total. It has successfully completed major supply assurance tasks such as the centenary of the Communist Party of China and the Beijing Winter Olympics, fully ensuring electricity and heat supply during peak periods like summer and winter. These efforts have received full recognition and high praise from national ministries and local governments, safeguarding the stability and security of national energy with hardcore strength.
The Longyuan Power Hainan Qiyuan Offshore Wind Farm, which was recently put into operation, is CHN Energy's first offshore wind power project in Hainan and the southernmost offshore wind power project in China. The turbines used in this project are the largest single-unit capacity wind turbines within the group and in Hainan Province, featuring excellent typhoon resistance. The project scientifically optimized the layout of turbine positions, actively avoided seasonal habitats of white dolphins, and innovatively used trenchless directional drilling technology for submarine cable laying, maximizing the protection of coastal vegetation and nearshore ecological environments. It also innovatively adopted a "differentiated construction" process to effectively overcome complex geological bottlenecks. During the submarine cable laying phase, combining trenchless directional drilling with drone magnetic field detection technology, it completed the laying of two 1,536-meter protective pipes in just 31 days, setting the second-longest record for "land-to-sea" directional drilling construction length in China.
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