China increases clean energy generation by 28.5%

China generated 1.07 trillion kilowatt hours of electricity from clean energy resources in 2012.

This is a 28.5 percent increase year on year from in 2011.

Clean energy accounted for 21.4 percent of the country's total electricity output, according to the State Electricity Regulatory Commission.

The share represents an increase of 3.9 percentage points from a year earlier, the SERC said in a statement.

Solar power generated in 2012 soared 414.4 percent year on year to 3.5 billion kwh while wind power jumped 35.5 percent to 100.4 billion kwh, according to the statement.

Hydropower grew 29.3 percent to 864.1 billion kwh and nuclear power went up 12.6 percent to 98.2 billion kwh.

China aims to increase the shares of non-fossil fuels in primary energy consumption and installed power generating capacity to 11.4 percent and 30 percent, respectively, by the end of 2015.

For more.