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Renewable energy capacity up in 2017

Renewable energy registered an installed capacity of 650 million kilowatts in 2017 in China, a record high, according to a senior energy official. Renewable energy made up 36.6 percent of the country's total installed capacity of power and generated electricity of 1.7 trillion kilowatt-hours last year, according to Liu Baohua, deputy head of the National Energy Administration. China made better use of renewable energy with less waste last year. The utilization rate of hydraulic power reached about 96 percent while curtailment rates of wind power and photovoltaic power dropped by 5.2 percentage points and 4.3 percentage points, respectively.

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