On May 15, green electricity from the Western Inner Mongolia power grid was delivered to Beijing and Tianjin for the first time, marking a significant milestone in China's national electricity market integration.
Source: China Energy News Network
On May 15, green electricity from the Western Inner Mongolia power grid was delivered to Beijing and Tianjin for the first time, marking a significant milestone in China's national electricity market integration. Coordinated by State Grid’s North China Branch and Inner Mongolia Power Group, the transaction sent renewable energy over 1,000 kilometers to urban grids in the capital and its neighboring municipality.
This marks the first time the Western Inner Mongolia grid has taken part in interprovincial green power trading in North China, signaling its formal inclusion in the region’s green electricity market. The deal involved a total of 55.61 million kilowatt-hours of renewable electricity, meeting the energy needs of 58 users, including major consumers such as the Beijing subway and Toyota’s Tianjin plant.
Demand for green power has been surging across the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, driven by deepening regional integration and corporate decarbonization goals. As of the end of April, the region's green electricity trading volume for 2025 had reached 63.4 billion kilowatt-hours—leading all major Chinese economic zones—with an average annual growth rate of over 160%.
Inner Mongolia has emerged as a key hub in China’s renewable energy expansion. It is a core area for the country’s large-scale “desert, Gobi, and wasteland”renewable energy base initiative. By the end of 2024, the region had received approvals for 41.7 GW of projects under this program—the largest capacity in the nation.
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