China coal power capacity may rise 19% over 5 years

Hong Kong

CHINA'S coal power generation capacity will grow as much as 19 per cent over the next five years even as the world's biggest energy consumer expands use of non-fossil fuels.

While coal-fired plant capacity will increase, it will still remain below 1,100 gigawatts, National Energy Administration chief engineer Han Shui said on Monday. Non-fossil power will increase 48 per cent to about 770 gigawatts over the five-year period through 2020 as total capacity expands by 31 per cent to 2,000 gigawatts.