Energy and green transition · nuclear and thermal generation
China nuclear and fossil electricity generation
One archived Ember Yearly Electricity Data release tracks China’s nuclear and fossil generation from 2000 to 2025 with each technology’s world share. Fossil is Ember’s own aggregate of coal, gas and other fossil. This is actual generation (TWh)—not capacity (GW) or emissions.
China and the world · same-source formal data
Nuclear and fossil generation and world shares
China and World both use the per-technology generation series of one archived Ember file; every share is China ÷ World × 100. Fossil and nuclear are always computed separately, never merged.
Source: Ember ↗ · Shares per technology with same archive, year and unit; China and World from one Ember releasechinainfigures.com
In 2025 China generated 6,179 TWh of fossil electricity — 33.9% of the world total (up from 11.3% in 2000) — while its nuclear share reached 17.3% (from just 0.7% in 2000). Read alongside the renewable-generation page (China at 37.3% of world wind, solar and hydro) for the full picture.
China’s generation growth · 2000–2025
China’s nuclear and fossil generation
Two independent series in TWh; renewables are covered on their own page and never mixed in here.
2025
Source: Ember ↗ · Unit TWh; fossil is Ember’s native coal+gas+other-fossil aggregatechinainfigures.com
Country ranking · 2000–2025
Annual nuclear and fossil generation by country
Fossil · 10 selected countries · TWh
2025
Countries shown
Defaults to the 2025 top-ten fossil generators. Keep at least two countries; missing years are never interpolated or filled with zero.
Source: Ember ↗ · Defaults to 2025 fossil; switching technology keeps your countries; missing years are never interpolatedchinainfigures.com
Scope and common misreadings
Generation
The formal measure on this page: Ember actual per-technology generation in terawatt-hours (TWh).
Fossil is an aggregate
Fossil is Ember’s native aggregate of coal, gas and other fossil — this page does not split coal from gas. Generation is also not emissions.
Source boundaries
Ember is an internationally comparable estimate; NBS/CEC official figures differ in scope. Shares are computed within one technology only (China ÷ World × 100).
Read alongside the wind, solar and hydro page (China at 37.3%): the two pages together cover China’s world share for every major power source.
Accessible country ranking for the current year
| Rank | Country | Generation (TWh) |
|---|
2025 top-ten fossil generators (default ranking)
| Rank | Country | TWh |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | China | 6,178.9 |
| 2 | United States of America | 2,576.2 |
| 3 | India | 1,526.8 |
| 4 | Russian Federation (the) | 767.2 |
| 5 | Japan | 693.2 |
| 6 | South Korea | 375.1 |
| 7 | Iran (Islamic Republic of) | 373.2 |
| 8 | Mexico | 264.4 |
| 9 | Egypt | 213.7 |
| 10 | Germany | 204.7 |
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Nuclear and fossil generation indicator added
Added 2000–2025 Ember nuclear and fossil electricity generation for China, same-source world shares (China 33.9% of world fossil and 17.3% of world nuclear generation in 2025, up from 11.3% and 0.7% in 2000) and a 17-country animated ranking. Fossil is Ember’s aggregate of coal, gas and other fossil.
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Added page-level formal-data CSV files, chart-level CSV/PNG/SVG exports and a bilingual revision timeline to all indicator pages.
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