For a plant capable of producing about 5000 kilowatts of power per minute from turbines that spin at 3000 revolutions per minute , the savings were the equivalent of producing 2.6 billion kilowatt hours with no emissions .
In jiuquan , new coal-fired power plants with 13.6 million kilowatts of installed capacity - the same amount of energy generated by chile in 2009 - will be added by 2020 .