On December 29, 2020, construction officially started on the Guangdong Huadian Yangjiang Qingzhou III 500MW Offshore Wind Power Project with the laying of its first pile of foundation, which marks the construction commencement of China's first offshore wind power project that far into the deep water area, and with the largest single OWT capacity and the largest offshore wind farm installed capacity so far.
The NEA released a list of breakthrough energy projects of significant technological equipment research and development in the end of December 2020.
On December 29, 2020, the "Standard and Evaluation of Low-Carbon Hydrogen, Clean Hydrogen and Renewable Energy Hydrogen" proposed by the China Hydrogen Alliance was officially released and implemented in China.
The establishment of the Nanchang – Changsha 1,000kV UHV transmission line aims to optimize and strengthen the grid structure of Jiangxi and Hunan provinces in order to improve the safety and stability of their power grid operations.
The Jiangsu Rudong H14# offshore wind farm belonging to Luneng has successfully connected all turbines onto the grid.
On December 22, the China Energy Policy Research Conference 2020 and the China Power Roundtable 4th-quarter meeting were concomitantly held in Beijing.