The

National Development and Reform Commission

and the

National Energy Administration

of China have jointly issued the

"15

th

Five-Year Plan for Building a New Energy System"

, which sets objective for the Chinese energy sector over the next five years, targeting

50% of non-fossil sources in power generation by 2030

, compared to 41% in 2025 (CnEVPost, 25/06/2025), with around 30% of power generation coming from solar and wind. In addition,

wind and solar

should exceed

50% of installed capacity by 2030

(47% in 2025), and power-sector intensity must fell by more than 10% over the five-year period.

China also aims to expand

non-pumped hydro energy storage capacity to 300 GW

by 2030,

pumped-storage hydropower capacity to 160 GW

(62 GW in 2025),

nuclear capacity

, which should rely mainly on third-generation pressurised water reactor technology,

to 110 GW

(up from 62 GW in 2025) and

renewable-energy-based hydrogen production to 2 Mt/year

.

A central feature of the plan is the use of electric vehicles (EVs) as a flexible resource to help balance the power grid, with

adjustable charging capacity from vehicle-to-grid (V2G) interaction reaching about 50 GW by 2030

. The number of charging facilities is expected to double, reaching 40 million units by 2030. In addition, the capacity of

virtual power plants (VPPs)

should exceed

50 GW by 2030

.

Overall,

non-fossil sources are expected to account for 25% of the country’s energy consumption

(14% in 2025). The plan calls for “a clean, low-carbon, safe, and efficient new energy system by 2030”, with a unified national electricity market and where coal and oil consumption have peaked by 2030.