Renewable energy accounts for more than half of installed capacity in China's high-altitude regions
Over the past five years, the share of renewable energy in installed power generation capacity in China's high-altitude regions has increased from an average of 28.5 percent to 52.9 percent. According to the China Electricity Council, the figure is 4.4 percentage points above the national average.
By the end of September 2026, the installed capacity of new energy power generation in China's high-altitude regions had reached 528 million kilowatts, accounting for 25.6 percent of the country's total.
Wind power capacity stood at 197 million kilowatts, representing 28.1 percent of the national total, while solar power capacity reached 327 million kilowatts, or 24.9 percent. Solar thermal power generation capacity totaled 2.12 million kilowatts.
Jiang Debin, deputy director of the Statistics and Digital Intelligence Department of the China Electricity Council, said the development of new energy in high-altitude provinces and regions had been gathering pace. Over the past five years, installed new energy capacity in seven provinces and regions with an average altitude of at least 1,500 meters rose from 144 million to 476 million kilowatts, representing average annual growth of 34.8 percent.
According to CCTV+, the figures reflect the expanding role of wind and solar power in the development of clean energy capacity across China's high-altitude regions.
