"That will turn into snow in parts of Wales, the Midlands, and the south Pennines as we go into the evening."

Reduced energy consumption and rapid development of renewables helped accelerate China's transition to a green and low-carbon economy last year, the National Bureau of Statistics said in a report on Tuesday.

Rooftop solar is set to overtake coal as Australia's most prominent source of power, according to a new report.

In Gansu's Wuwei city, a 500,000 mu (33,333 hectares) photovoltaic power base is under construction, with a total installed capacity of 15 million kilowatts.

Traders associations, regulators and other market representatives have responded to the European Commission's consultation proposed power market reform.

The wind power and photovoltaic projects are located in Shenyang, Dalian, Dandong, Yingkou and Chaoyang cities.

The installed capacity of new energy power plants in the Ningxia Hui autonomous region has exceeded those powered by coal for the first time.

The first generating unit at the Hwange Thermal Power Station went on stream in November.