{"id":11185,"date":"2021-01-21T08:00:21","date_gmt":"2021-01-21T08:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/business\/china-business\/article\/3118675\/china-doubles-new-renewable-capacity-2020-and-raises"},"modified":"2021-01-21T08:00:21","modified_gmt":"2021-01-21T08:00:21","slug":"china-doubles-new-renewable-capacity-in-2020-and-raises-thermal-plants-base-to-five-year-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/21\/china-doubles-new-renewable-capacity-in-2020-and-raises-thermal-plants-base-to-five-year-high\/","title":{"rendered":"China doubles new renewable capacity in 2020 and raises thermal plants base to five-year high"},"content":{"rendered":"China more than doubled its construction of new wind and solar power plants in 2020 from a year earlier, government data showed, reflecting Beijing\u2019s pledge to cut fossil fuel dependence and bring carbon emissions to a peak within a decade.China, the world\u2019s biggest greenhouse gas emitter, added 71.67 gigawatts (GW) of wind power capacity last year, the most ever and nearly triple 2019\u2019s levels, according to data released by the National Energy Administration (NEA) late Wednesday.China\u2019s 2020\u2026\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/business\/china-business\/article\/3118675\/china-doubles-new-renewable-capacity-2020-and-raises\">South China Morning Post<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China more than doubled its construction of new wind and solar power plants in 2020 from a year earlier, government data showed, reflecting Beijing\u2019s pledge to cut fossil fuel dependence and bring carbon emissions to a peak within a decade.China, the w&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":476,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11185"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/476"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11185"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11186,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11185\/revisions\/11186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}