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China: China builds world's largest renewable energy system with rapid progress made during 14th Five-Year Plan period

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Storyline: China has built the world's largest renewable energy system, with the efforts having intensified particularly during the 14th Five-Year Plan (2021-2025) period. Since China pledged in 2021 that it would peak carbon dioxide emissions before 2030 and achieve carbon neutrality before 2060, it has made rapid strides in installing renewable energy capacity. China now produces more than 10 trillion kilowatt-hours of electricity each year, which accounts for one-third of the world's total. In terms of electricity consumption, one out of every three kilowatt-hours of electricity consumed in China is generated by wind farms, solar panels and hydro power stations, representing the world's largest and most far-reaching green miracle. The country now has six large hydropower stations along the Yangtze River's main streams, forming the world's largest clean energy corridor. The vast desert and barren land in China's western regions have been transformed into huge solar farms, housing seven of the nine major clean energy bases outlined in the 14th Five-Year Plan. If all the new solar panels installed nationwide over the five-year period were laid out flat, the total area could cover 530,000 football fields. If all the new wind turbine blades were connected end-to-end, the combined length would stretch from China's easternmost point to its westernmost point and back again. The construction of the ultra-high voltage "energy arteries" outlined in the 14th Five-Year Plan has also been accelerated. Over the five years, 19 ultra-high voltage projects have commenced construction, weaving a super network for power transmission. Green electricity from the western region now fulfills one-fifth of the electricity demand in the central and eastern regions. The 14th Five-Year Plan also for the first time outlined plans for new energy storage facilities. Leveraging technologies such as gravity energy storage and compressed air energy storage, the facilities played a major role in meeting peak electricity demand this summer. China has established the world's largest and most comprehensive new energy industrial chain, achieving the target of non-fossil energy accounting for 20 percent of total energy consumption as scheduled. Shotlist: FILE: China - Date Unknown: 1. Various of solar thermal power plant 2. Various of wind farm 3. Time-lapse shot of solar thermal power plant, night sky 4. Wind turbine 5. Solar panels 6. Various of hydropower station 7. Solar panels 8. Animation showing blueprint, locations of hydro power station 9. Various of satellite photos showing desert, barren land transformed into solar farm 10. Various of power grid, devices operating 11. Various of illuminated city skyline 12. Various of power storage facilities 13. Technicians working 14. Aerial shots of solar farm 15. Aerial shots of wind farm. [Restrictions : No access Chinese mainland]

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