Inner Mongolia's energy sector, guided by the new energy security strategy, made significant strides in 2025 by advancing the construction of a national key energy and strategic resource base. The industrial added value of the energy sector increased by over 5% year-on-year, with major energy projects attracting investments exceeding 300 billion yuan. Energy industry investments accounted for approximately 35% of the region's total fixed-asset investments, providing robust support for high-quality economic development.
In the coal sector, Inner Mongolia accelerated the release of high-quality production capacity in 2025. Three mining area master plans received national approval, and 13 new coal production reserve projects were added, with a reserve capacity of 236 million tons. The region successfully fulfilled the state-assigned coal supply guarantee task of 795 million tons. Concurrently, the promotion of green and intelligent mining technologies was actively pursued, with green mines and intelligent mines now comprising 61% and 74% of active coal mines, respectively.
For the power sector, 2025 saw Inner Mongolia deepen the implementation of its grid strengthening project. The construction of the "seven horizontal, one vertical" 500-kilovolt backbone grid in the Eastern Inner Mongolia grid and the "four horizontal, six vertical" backbone grid in the Western Inner Mongolia grid was fully completed. The region's total installed power capacity was the first in the nation to surpass 300 million kilowatts, while electricity transmitted to other regions reached 350 billion kilowatt-hours, maintaining the top national position for 21 consecutive years. Significant breakthroughs were also achieved in power market development, with the Eastern Inner Mongolia spot power market commencing continuous settlement trial operations, and the Western Inner Mongolia spot market becoming the fifth in the country to transition to formal operation.
In the realm of new energy, Inner Mongolia added 35 million kilowatts of new energy capacity in 2025, bringing the total installed capacity to over 170 million kilowatts. Notably, wind power capacity became the first in the nation to exceed 100 million kilowatts. New energy power generation reached 270 billion kilowatt-hours, securing the top national ranking for more than a decade, while the transmission of green electricity to other regions hit 90 billion kilowatt-hours, a year-on-year increase of over 40%. Furthermore, substantial progress was made in the development of the hydrogen energy and energy storage industries. For hydrogen, efforts focused on improving the entire industrial chain system of "production, storage, transportation, and utilization," with the policy for the grid-connection electricity ratio of green hydrogen projects optimized to 40% and the policy benefit period extended. Annual green hydrogen production surpassed 10,000 tons, leading the nation. In energy storage, a detailed policy for compensating the discharge volume of independent new-type energy storage was implemented, introducing an innovative "discharge volume compensation" mechanism. To date, the cumulative operational scale of new-type energy storage projects in the region has exceeded 17 million kilowatts, a 144% year-on-year increase.
It is particularly noteworthy that in technological innovation, ten pieces of technical equipment from Inner Mongolia in the fields of hydrogen energy, energy storage, and new-type power systems were included in the National Catalogue of Major Technical Equipment (First Set) in 2025, marking the best performance in years. Seven projects were selected for the national pilot program of hydrogen energy projects in the energy sector, the highest number in the country.
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