On September 22, the China Electricity Council released a report indicating that China’s electrification rate in 2025 is expected to be around 29.5%, marking a 1.4 percentage point increase from the previous year and surpassing that of major economies in Europe and America. The electrification rate refers to the proportion of electric energy in the total final energy consumption. A higher electrification rate not only reflects China’s continuously enhancing power supply capacity but also demonstrates the accelerated pace of China’s green and low-carbon energy transition.For instance, industries such as computing power facilities, artificial intelligence, new energy vehicles, and smart home appliances all rely on electricity as their primary form of energy supply. The development and growth of these new industries, new business forms, and new equipment will also be directly reflected in the increase of electrification rate. China has become the main driving force behind the global electrification process, contributing over 80% to the increase in the world’s electrification rate since 2015.
