Heavy rains in July drove up China's hydropower generation by 6.1% from a year ago to 146.3 TWh last month, but coal-fired power output fell 0.7% to 460 TWh, showed the latest official data.
Hydropower output surged 20.41% in July compared with the preceding month, and coal-fired power also grew 6.41% month on month amid rising demand amid high temperature and business recovery, according to data released by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) on August 14.
China's total power generation stood at 680.1 TWh in July, up 1.9% year on year and 7.88% from the preceding month, with coal-fired output accounting 68%, the NBS data showed.
Nuclear power generation came in at 33.4 TWh (6.7% YoY, 5.03% MoM), wind power at 28.3 TWh (23.2% YoY, -12.65% MoM) and solar power 12.2 TWh (-0.6% YoY, -1.61% MoM).
China generated 4,045.1 TWh of electricity during the first seven months, down 0.9% year on year. The rate was narrower compared with 1.4% decline during the first half.
Over January-July, coal-fired power generation was totaled 2,895.7 TWh (-1.5% YoY), hydropower at 6,217 TWh (-4.7% YoY), nuclear power 2,050 TWh (7.1% YoY), wind power 2,406 TWh (8.5% YoY), and solar power 82.1 TWh (7.5% YoY).
(Writing by Emma Yang Editing by Harry Huo)
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