1. Geography: installed capacity by country
Darker shading means more installed capacity with Chinese participation. Click a country to filter the table below. Red dots mark small island states with no land area on the map (Mauritius, Seychelles, Cabo Verde, Sao Tome and Principe, Comoros).
2. Structure: technology, region and country
Hydropower has long dominated. Including planned and suspended projects sharply raises the share of coal and solar - switch the scope above to see the structure of projects actually built.
Technology mix (by capacity)
Unit: MW
Technology mix (by project count)
Unit: projects
Top 18 countries by capacity
MW, sorted descending
Top 20 individual projects by capacity
MW; colour indicates technology
Capacity by region and technology
Unit: MW
Mode of Chinese participation
By project count; "EPC contract" means China mainly builds rather than funds
Capacity by project status
MW; always based on all catalogued projects
Top 18 countries by project count
Unit: projects
3. Timeline: from concessional-loan mega-hydro to "small and beautiful" renewables
Bars show projects commissioned or due that year; the line shows the corresponding capacity. The 2010s were the mega-hydro era; after 2020 solar and wind projects multiplied while average unit size fell.
Capacity vs disclosed amount
Log-log scale: capacity (MW) on the x-axis, disclosed amount (USD million) on the y-axis
Capacity by Chinese funding channel
By main Chinese funding channel; MW
4. Project database (searchable)
Filter by country, technology, status or region; click a column header to sort. The source link in each row opens the page used for verification. The table follows the scope selected above.
| Project ↕ | Country ↕ | Technology ↕ | Capacity (MW) ↕ | Status ↕ | Year ↕ | Chinese companies involved | Finance / mode | Amount (USD m) ↕ | Notes & source |
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