In 2025, China added a record-breaking total of approximately 434 GW of new wind and solar power capacity, often rounded to over 430 GW in reports.

According to China’s National Energy Administration (NEA): solar – 315 GW added (a new annual record); wind – 119 GW added (also a record). This brought China’s cumulative installed wind and solar capacity to over 1.8 TW by the end of 2025, accounting for nearly half of the country’s total power capacity.

These additions far exceeded those of any other country and represented the majority of global renewable growth in 2025. For perspective: the 434 GW is roughly equivalent to adding about 17,000 large wind turbines and 500 million solar panels. It helped drive China’s total new power capacity to 543 GW across all sources.

This massive expansion underscores China’s dominance in renewable energy deployment, even as it continues to build coal plants for grid reliability.

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