In July, China's total electricity consumption surpassed the 1-trillion-kilowatt-hours mark for the first time, reaching 1.02 trillion kilowatt-hours (kWh), an increase of 8.6 percent year-on-year.
At the same time, the share of electricity generated from renewable energies rose significantly, with wind, solar and biomass power generation increasing rapidly, bringing their share close to one-quarter of the total.