From the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Energy Work Conference and Industry Safety Production Conference held on December 31, it was learned that, according to industry scheduling, major energy projects in Inner Mongolia are expected to complete investments exceeding 300 billion yuan in 2025, with energy industry investments accounting for about 35% of the region's total fixed-asset investment. This year, Inner Mongolia achieved significant breakthroughs and impressive results across multiple energy sub-sectors including coal, electric power, new energy, energy storage, and hydrogen, providing strong support for the green transformation and development of the economy and society.
In the coal sector, Inner Mongolia fulfilled the national task of guaranteeing the supply of 795 million tons of coal in 2025. Concurrently, the region accelerated the release of high-quality production capacity, with master plans for 3 mining areas receiving national approval, marking the highest number and largest scale of approvals in recent years; it also added 13 new coal production capacity reserve projects, with a total reserve capacity of 23.6 million tons.
Regarding electric power, Inner Mongolia rapidly advanced the construction of 12 coal-fired power projects in 2025, including the third phase of the Mengneng Jinshan project, with a total scale of 21.32 million kilowatts. The total installed power capacity in Inner Mongolia is projected to surpass 300 million kilowatts by the end of 2025; annual electricity generation is expected to reach 860 billion kilowatt-hours, of which 350 billion kilowatt-hours will be transmitted outside the region. Important breakthroughs were made in power market construction, as the East Inner Mongolia electricity spot market commenced continuous settlement trial operation, and the West Inner Mongolia spot market became the fifth in the nation to transition to formal operation.
In the new energy sector, Inner Mongolia's installed wind power capacity took the lead nationally by surpassing 100 million kilowatts in 2025. The region is expected to add 35 million kilowatts of new energy capacity for the full year, bringing the total installed new energy capacity to over 170 million kilowatts by the end of 2025. Annual electricity generation from new energy sources is projected to be 270 billion kilowatt-hours, with 90 billion kilowatt-hours of green electricity transmitted outside the region, representing a year-on-year increase of more than 40%. Inner Mongolia also pioneered the market-oriented reform of new energy feed-in tariffs nationally, achieving full market integration for new energy on July 1, 2025.
Construction of "sand, Gobi, and desert" bases and outbound transmission channels progressed smoothly. In 2025, construction fully commenced on the supporting coal power and transmission channel for the Kubuqi to Hebei power transmission project, while construction has already started on the supporting coal power for the Tenggeli to Jiangxi base. As installed new energy capacity and generation rapidly increased, Inner Mongolia accelerated energy storage development by strengthening policy support, with new types of energy storage becoming the "regulatory vanguard" for stabilizing new energy fluctuations and supporting grid security.
Inner Mongolia detailed and implemented a compensation policy for the discharge volume of independent new energy storage, innovatively establishing a "discharge volume compensation" mechanism. The compensation standard is set annually for a ten-year term, with rates of 0.35 yuan per kilowatt-hour for 2025 and 0.28 yuan per kilowatt-hour for 2026, effectively promoting the rapid development of new energy storage. To date, the cumulative scale of new energy storage put into operation in Inner Mongolia has exceeded 17 million kilowatts.
In the hydrogen industry, Inner Mongolia promoted the improvement of the entire hydrogen industry chain system encompassing production, storage, transportation, and application. It optimized and adjusted the proportion of grid-connected electricity for green hydrogen projects to 40% and extended the policy benefit period. The region's green hydrogen production surpassed 10,000 tons in 2025, quadrupling the output from 2024.
Notably, in technological innovation, 10 items of technical equipment in fields such as hydrogen energy, energy storage, and new power systems from Inner Mongolia were selected for the national catalogue of major first-set technical equipment in 2025, achieving the best performance in recent years. Seven projects were selected for the national pilot program of energy sector hydrogen projects, ranking first in the country by number.
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