China's power generation up 3.6% in July-Business news

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State Grid employees check solar power panels in the Tibet autonomous region. [Photo by SONG WEIXING/FOR CHINA DAILY]

BEIJING - China's power generation climbed 3.6 percent year-on-year in July, with the pace of increase widening by 0.8 percentage points compared with that in June, official data showed.

In July, the country's daily average power generation reached 27.3 billion kilowatt-hours, according to the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS).

A breakdown of the data showed growth in the output of thermal power, nuclear power, wind power, and solar power, up 7.2 percent, 2.9 percent, 25 percent, and 6.4 percent year-on-year, respectively, during the period, the NBS data showed.

However, the country's hydropower output fell 17.5 percent from a year earlier, narrowing by 16.4 percentage points from that in June.

In the first seven months, China's power output expanded 3.8 percent year-on-year to 5.01 trillion kilowatt-hours, according to the NBS.

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