The increases led Brazil to reach a total 182,841MW in installed capacity.

The company's standalone capacity utilisation was 98pc during January-March compared with 93pc for the same period last year.

After operating steadily for three months, an offshore wind farm in Shantou city, South China's Guangdong province, generated over 100 million kilowatt-hours (kWh) of electricity by March 29, according to the developer Datang Shantou New Energy Co Ltd.

A total of 948 million tons of cargo was transported on China's railways in the period, 25.87 million tons more than that in the same period last year, according to the company.

Over the past two years, Iran's steel industry has been developing, and has maintained tenth of the top steel producers in the world.

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