Dongying in East China's Shandong province is accelerating its development of clean energy.
According to the Dongying branch of State Grid, the city's installed capacity of new energy had reached 6.55 million kW by the end of 2023, surpassing traditional coal power to become the largest power source, with the growth rate of electricity generation leading the province.
From January to July this year, new energy generation reached 7 billion kilowatt-hours, a 35.62 percent increase year-on-year and accounting for 28.42 percent of total electricity consumption.
Dongying is striving to create a 100-billion-yuan ($14.28 billion) new energy industry cluster that integrates wind, solar, hydrogen, storage, and manufacturing, and the city’s government is also extending a supporting hand to aid in company's development. The government has introduced policies to advance high-quality development through an innovation-driven strategy, seeking to accelerate the construction of high-level innovation platforms, focusing on offshore wind power, new energy storage, and hydrogen technology equipment testing and certification bases.
The new energy sector in Dongying is continuing to mature and make breakthroughs, transitioning from rapid growth to high-quality development.
