The wave of power outages in Hangzhou and the worst shortage of electricity for civil use in 7 years

On May 11th, there was still an hour to go to work in the morning. At the intersection of Huanggushan Road and Hangzhou Tianmushan Road, Mr. Yu of a small company owned by a small company rushed to the office. “There will be no blackouts today.” He was worried that the day before yesterday, The park began to lose power at around 3 pm, but no longer called for it for a long time, so employees had to get off work early.

Power outages not only occurred in the Digital Source Software Park, but also in many districts in Hangzhou. The reporter learned from the Hangzhou Electric Power Department that the downtown area of ​​Hangzhou and the surrounding counties also suffered blackouts. Whether there will be a blackout or even more serious will cause many people to worry about it.

The first wave of “blackouts” struck ahead of schedule on May 10, when the maximum temperature reached 36.3°C, and Hangzhou suffered the first wave of power cuts this year.

In the summer, the peak of electricity consumption has not yet arrived, and power outages have already occurred in the urban areas of Hangzhou and surrounding districts and counties. “How did the newly bought air conditioner suddenly stop running?” At around 3 pm on the 10th, Mr. Li, a member of the Blue Bridge Garden in Hangzhou’s Jiubao, knew that the property had a blackout.

Corresponding to this, some local microblogs in Hangzhou, in different areas in Hangzhou, there are people who continue to announce the suspension of inductance sigh, Tiangushan Road Huanggushan intersection, Tianmushan Road College intersection and other companies and shops have power outages.

“Hangzhou and Xiaoshan, Yuhang, Lin'an, and other surrounding counties have been overloaded due to overload.” The reporter’s call to Hangzhou Power Service Hotline 95598 was informed. The reporter was informed that in the urban area of ​​Hangzhou, the blackout involved the local area of ​​Hangzhou West, Desheng, Jiubao, Sijiqing, Gongyu Bridge, Gudun Road, Zhuantang and other areas. Some of them began to stop around 10 am, some of them started to stop at 2 or 3 o'clock in the afternoon, and power outages lasted from two to three hours to seven to eight hours.

There are even traffic lights that do not work because of power outages. According to the electric power department, about 10 locations were affected by power outages because of power outages, mainly because some of these traffic lights are in the same line as enterprises, and due to power cuts by enterprises, the traffic lights are temporarily unable to work.

To Mr. Li's skepticism, on April 21, the National Development and Reform Commission issued the "orderly power management measures," the notice said that giving priority to protecting civilian electricity, so that electricity in the people, how the tide of power outages affected the civil life?

Hangzhou's power gap is about 15% this year

“The rise in temperature has led to a surge in electricity use, and power supply construction has not kept up with the increase in electricity demand.” The Hangzhou Electric Power Department explained to reporters that the electric load on May 10 reached 6.49 million kilowatts, and there was a serious shortage of electricity in recent years. The gap, the actual level of electricity shortage on the day has reached 1 million kilowatts.

According to local electricity authorities, it is expected that by the peak of summer electricity consumption, the maximum power load will reach about 9.7 million kilowatts, and in extreme weather conditions it may reach 9.9 million kilowatts, and the power gap may have hundreds of thousands to millions of kilowatts, accounting for approximately To one-eighth to one-eighth of all electricity demand, the gap was larger than last year and reached the highest level in nearly seven years. It is a foregone conclusion that Hangzhou has a relatively large power gap.

The Office of Orderly Electricity in Hangzhou issued an emergency notice to this day that the city must strictly implement orderly power arrangements and suspend the company's work stoppages and allow electricity to be stopped. Operational venues such as shopping malls and hotels should limit the air conditioning load, and the air-conditioning temperature should not be lower than At 26 degrees Celsius, party and government institutions at all levels take the lead in saving electricity.

The reporter was informed that this time the emergency power cuts are all concentrated in local companies. There are some ordinary living areas on these lines. Some enterprises do not implement orderly use of electricity, do not plan work stoppages, and sneaky use of electricity, resulting in the lives of some residents. Electricity is affected.