World’s largest energy transmission is happening in China

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Last year, 2.4 trillion kilowatt-hours of electricity were transmitted from western China to the east – that’s enough to power five Germanys.

More than 80% of that electricity came from clean, renewable sources, a result of China’s West-to-East Power Transmission Project, which is one of the most
ambitious and transformative energy initiatives in the world today. Since its
launch, the project has reshaped the nation’s energy landscape by channeling
vast amounts of clean power from China’s western regions to its densely
populated and industrialized eastern coast, traveling thousands of kilometers,
crossing mountains, deserts, rivers and reaching over 500 million people in
major cities like Shanghai, Guangzhou and Beijing.

Source: Yongnan Zhu, Jing Ke, Jianhua Wang, He Liu, Shan Jiang, Helcio Blum, Yong Zhao, Guohua He, Yuan Meng, Jian Su, Water transfer and losses embodied in the West–East electricity transmission project in China, Applied Energy, Volume 275, 2020, 115152, ISSN 0306-2619,