August 2010 Electricity Operation

In August, the country’s power generation amounted to 390.3 billion kWh, a year-on-year increase of 12.6%, an acceleration of 3.3 percentage points year-on-year. Among them, thermal power increased by 9.9%, slowing by 0.6%; hydropower rose by 22.3%, accelerating by 18.6%. From January to August, the country’s power generation amounted to 2,700.5 billion kWh, a year-on-year increase of 17.2%, and the growth rate was 16.4 percentage points higher than the same period of last year. Among them, thermal power growth was 18.2%, a decrease of 1.5% over the same period of last year; hydropower growth was 10.7%, slowing by 1.1%.

The peak of power generation this summer occurred on August 13th, reaching 13.958 billion kWh, an increase of 14.4% from the peak of last year. Since most of the water supply is good, the major hydropower stations are in full power. The monthly hydropower generation increased by 22.3% year-on-year, largely replacing thermal power generation, reducing coal demand and alleviating coal supply during the peak summer period. situation. In August, the average daily coal consumption of major power plants nationwide was 3.737 million tons, a 3.8% increase from the previous period, which was lower than the average of around 8% in the same period in recent years. At the end of August, the coal stocks of key power plants were 58.6 million tons, and the number of days that can be consumed was more than 17 days.

According to industry statistics, the electricity consumption of the whole society from January to August increased by 19.3% year-on-year, an increase of 18.9 percentage points year-on-year. Among them, the first industry's electricity consumption increased by 5.9%, down 0.4% year-on-year; the second industry's electricity consumption increased by 21.5%, a decrease of 2.8% over the same period of last year; the third industry and residential electricity consumption increased by 15.7% and 13 respectively. %, an increase of 5 and 1.6 percentage points year-on-year.

Industrial electricity consumption grew by 21.4% year-on-year, down 3% from the same period last year. Among them, iron and steel, non-ferrous metal smelting and processing, and chemical industry electricity consumption increased by 23%, 38% and 17.2%, respectively, fell by 4.5%, 9.9% and 7.4% in the same period last year; building materials industry electricity consumption increased by 20%, growth rate The year-on-year increase of 16.8 percentage points; the total electricity consumption of the four industries accounted for 44.1% of the industrial electricity consumption, the proportion increased by 1 percentage point year-on-year.

The average utilization hours of power generation equipment in the country was 3,163 hours, an increase of 210 hours compared with the same period of last year; among them, thermal power equipment was 3,419 hours, an increase of 317 hours.