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29 October 2007 - China's total installed power generation capacity could reach 1000 GW the year 2020, with total power consumption exceeding 6 trillion kWh, said Zhao Xizheng, president of China Electricity Council.
China's total installed power generating capacity reached 624m kW in 2006, while total electricity consumption reached 2.82 trillion kWh. China's per capita electricity consumption in 2006, at 2149 kWh, is about one-seventh of that in the US, one-fourth of that in Japan and one-third of that in South Korea.
China's per capita domestic electricity consumption in 2006, at only 246 kWh, is roughly one-twentieth of that in the United States and one-tenth of that in Japan.
"While China achieved a basic balance in electricity supply and demand in the first half of 2007, it was not an ideal balance and development is still the priority for the Chinese power industry," said Zhao at the recently closed China-ASEAN Power Cooperation and Development Forum held in Nanning, capital city of Guangxi in southwest China.
China's electricity demand is projected to maintain its current momentum in the next decade, spurred by industrialization, urbanization, marketization and globalization. Zhao predicts that China's total electricity consumption will pose an annual growth of 10 percent between the year 2007 and 2010.
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