China may soon revise power goal

China will soon announce the revised power supply capacity target for 2020, a senior energy official said yesterday.

Teams of experts and officials are busy reworking the target, which may increase to 1,400-1,500 GW by 2020, said Sun Qin, deputy director of the National Energy Administration. He said speeding up construction of power plants would help stimulate the domestic economy and create more jobs.

The revised target, if approved by the central government, would be nearly a 50 percent increase from the previous goal set by the government in 2006, when it planned to develop 1,000 GW in installed capacity by 2020.