According to Weng Shilie, head of directors with the Shanghai Municipal Energy Research Society, the country's volume of gas-generated electricity will amount to 285 billion kW/hours by 2020, compared to 2.8 billion kw/hours just three years ago.
The completion of many major gas pipeline projects in China, such as the west-east major gas pipeline, is the reason for the expected increase in the use of natural gas to generate electricity. The west-east pipeline alone is theoretically capable of delivering 12 billion cubic meters of gas annually.
Weng also admits that China is looking to increase its use of nuclear power for electricity generation. He expects that by 2020 nuclear power generation will rise to 260 billion kW/hours from the 2000 capacity of 16.7 billion kW/hours.
