Renewable energy efficiency to improve

China will solve the problem of renewable energy going to waste by 2020, the head of the National Energy Administration said on Tuesday.

"Wind and solar curtailment rates are expected to drop 6.7 and 3.8 percentage points respectively in 2017, and the utilization rate for hydropower will reach 95 percent this year," Nur Bekri, head of the NEA, was quoted as saying by Economic Daily, at the national work conference on energy.

"China has become a global leader in the development of non-fossil fuel," he said, adding that the country has made great achievement in the development of new energy and renewable energy, Xinhua reported.