The green electricity trading volume in north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region reached 509.58 billion kilowatt-hours (kWh) by the end of August this year.
Endowed with abundant wind and solar resources, the power grid in western Inner Mongolia has also seen its installed new energy capacity surpass 100 million kilowatts, accounting for 57.7 percent of the region's total power installed capacity.
A pioneer in market-oriented trading for new energy in 2015, Inner Mongolia's green power delivery network now serves 13 provincial-level regions nationwide, keeping the region at the forefront of China's green electricity trading scale.
Inner Mongolia's green electricity trading volume tops 500 bln kWh
Inner Mongolia's green electricity trading volume tops 500 bln kWh
A super El Nino event officially formed in September 2026, monitoring data from China's National Climate Center showed on Friday.
Zhao Junhu, chief forecaster at the center, said that the equatorial central and eastern Pacific entered an El Nino state in May this year, with sea surface temperatures in the key monitoring region rising rapidly and continuously from May to September.
The three-month running mean of the sea surface temperature (SST) index in the monitoring region has remained above 0.5 degrees Celsius for five consecutive months. The index exceeded 2.5 degrees Celsius for the July-September period, meeting the threshold for a super El Nino event.
The event is classified as an eastern Pacific-type El Nino, in which the warmest sea surface temperatures are concentrated in the equatorial eastern Pacific.
Monitoring data showed that sea surface temperatures across most of the equatorial Pacific in September were above average of the same period, with temperatures in the warm pool of the eastern Pacific exceeding the climatological average by more than 3 degrees Celsius.
The SST index for the monitoring region reached 2.94 degrees Celsius in September, up 0.35 degrees Celsius from August. The average index for the July-September period stood at 2.54 degrees Celsius.
Based on a combination of domestic and international dynamical climate models and statistical forecasting methods, the center expects sea surface temperatures in the equatorial central and eastern Pacific to continue rising over the next three months, peaking in late autumn or early winter, Zhao said.
The event is expected to become the strongest El Nino on record since systematic monitoring began, he added.
Super El Nino event formed in September: China's National Climate Center
