Last year, China added 90 GW of coal-generated power to its grid — nearly the size of Germany's total installed capacity.
"Similarly, by 2020 the total installed capacity for solar power will be at least three times that of the original target [3GW], " Zhang said in an interview in London.
He points out that channel checks should have caught such a massive leap in installed capacity.
Italy's state energy management agency, the GSE, calculated that all presently deployed equipment, if hooked up to the grid, would constitute 7 gigawatts of installed capacity.
In Jiuquan, new coal-fired power plants with 13.6 million kilowatts of installed capacity - the same amount of energy generated by Chile in 2009 - will be added by 2020.
The Gezhouba Project is a large run-of-river hydropower plant with an installed capacity of 2715MW.
But the country leads the world in its installed capacity of renewable energy sources (see chart), and is the third-biggest producer of solar panels, after China and Japan.
China now has 11 nuclear reactors in operation, with a total nuclear power installed capacity of 9.08 gW.
annual utilization hours of installed capacity
In China, since 1949 the electric power industry has made big stride in its development, the annual generation of electricity increased from 4.3 TWh in 1949 to 120 TWh in 1998 and total installed capacity from 1850 MW in 1949 to 28 GW in 1998
Shaoguan is an important power-generating center in Guangdong, being capable of an installed capacity of nearly2.4 million kilowatts and an annual generation capacity of10 billion kilowatt-hours.
A sewage pumping station with an installed capacity of more than 2,000 m3 per day and its boundary is less than 150 m from the existing residential area.
In 2009, China's installed capacity reached 55 gigawatts of small hydropower, 22.68 gigawatts of wind power, 4 gigawatts for biomass, and 300 megawatts-peak for photovoltaic solar power.
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