CEC Releases Electricity Industry Operation Profile for January-October 2017: National Grid Project Completes 412.6 Billion Yuan Investment

Recently, CEC released the operation briefing on the power industry from January to October 2017 as follows:

From January to October, the electricity supply and demand in the country as a whole was relaxed. The growth rate of total electricity consumption in the month dropped from the previous month, and the electricity consumption in the tertiary industry continued its rapid growth. The growth rate of industrial electricity consumption was lower than the electricity consumption of the whole society. The growth rate of power generation in other high-powered industries dropped year-on-year; the growth rate of power generation installed capacity dropped year-on-year, while the growth rate of thermal power generation increased year-on-year; in addition to hydropower, the utilization of other types of power generation equipment A year-on-year increase. The cross-region and inter-provincial provinces sent their electricity to grow year-on-year. The newly-added generating capacity increased year-on-year, of which solar power generation was close to half.

First, the growth of electricity consumption in the whole society dropped from the previous month, and the electricity consumption of the tertiary industry continued to grow rapidly

From January to October, the national total electricity consumption of 5,201.8 billion kwh, an increase of 6.7% over the same period of last year, an increase of 1.9 percentage points over the same period of last year.

From the perspective of industries, from January to October, the electricity consumption of the primary industry was 99.5 billion kilowatt hours, up by 7.4% over the same period of last year, accounting for 1.9% of the total power consumption of the whole society; the electricity consumption of the secondary industry was 3628 billion kilowatt hours, up YoY 5.7%, an increase of 3.4 percentage points over the same period of last year, accounting for 69.7% of the total electricity consumption of the whole society, contributing 60.0% of the total electricity consumption growth of the whole society; electricity consumption of the tertiary industry was 736.7 billion kWh , An increase of 10.7% over the same period of last year, a deceleration of 1.0 percentage point from the same period of last year, accounting for 14.2% of the total electricity consumption of the whole society and a contribution of 21.8% to the growth of electricity consumption in the whole society; electricity consumption by urban and rural residents 7376 An increase of 7.6% over the same period of last year. The growth rate dropped 4.0 percentage points over the same period of the previous year, accounting for 14.2% of the total electricity consumption of the whole society and 16.1% of the total power consumption growth.

Figure 1 2016, 2017 monthly total electricity consumption and its growth rate

In terms of provinces, from January to October, the total electricity consumption of all provinces in the country achieved positive growth, of which 15 were in the provinces with a growth rate of electricity consumption above the national average of 6.7%, as follows: Tibet (16.7%), Ningxia (12.4%), Guizhou (11.4%), Shanxi (11.0%), Xinjiang (10.9%), Inner Mongolia (10.8%), Shaanxi (8.4%), Fujian (7.4%), Chongqing (7.3%), Qinghai (7.3%), Anhui (7.3%) and Henan (6.8%).

In October, the national total electricity consumption was 513.0 billion kwh, an increase of 5.0% over the same period of 2010. According to the industries, the primary industry consumed 8.4 billion kwh of electricity, an increase of 3.6% over the same period of last year; the secondary industry used 365 billion kwh of electricity, An increase of 3.0% over the same period last year; the tertiary industry consumed 70.8 billion kilowatt hours of electricity, up 12.4% over the same period of last year; and the urban and rural residents consumed 68.8 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity, an increase of 8.7% over the same period of last year.

In terms of provinces, in October, there were 23 provinces where the growth rate of electricity consumption in the whole society exceeded the national average (5.0%). Among the provinces where the growth rate exceeded 10%, Fujian Province (16.0%), Guizhou Province (14.3%), Gansu (12.5%), Shaanxi (12.0%), Inner Mongolia (11.6%) and Xinjiang (11.5%). There were 4 provinces with negative growth in electricity use in the whole society Shandong (-9.7%).

Second, the growth rate of industrial electricity consumption is lower than the electricity consumption of the whole society. The growth rate of the month dropped from the previous month

1-10 months, the national industrial electricity consumption of 356.34 billion kwh, an increase of 5.7%, an increase of 3.4 percentage points over the same period the previous year, accounting for 68.5% of the total electricity consumption, the growth of electricity consumption in the whole society Of the total contribution was 58.4%, of which light-industry electricity consumption was 618.7 billion kWh, an increase of 7.4% over the same period of last year, an increase of 3.3 percentage points over the same period of last year; heavy industry power consumption was 2.94747 trillion kWh, up 5.3% Increase over the previous year increased by 3.4 percentage points.

In October, the national industrial electricity consumption was 358.7 billion kwh, up 2.9% over the same period of last year and accounting for 69.9% of the total electricity consumption of the whole society, of which, the light industry consumed 62.8 billion kwh, up 7.7% over the same period of the previous year, The proportion of electricity consumption was 12.2%; heavy industry electricity consumption was 295.8 billion kWh, an increase of 1.9% over the same period of previous year, accounting for 57.7% of the total electricity consumption of the whole society.

Figure 2 Monthly growth of electricity consumption by heavy industry since 2015

From January to October, the nationwide manufacturing electricity consumption was 2.6880 trillion kwh, up 6.2% year-on-year, up 4.6 percentage points from the same period of last year. In October, the national manufacturing electricity consumption was 272.8 billion kwh, up 4.3% ; The average daily electricity consumption of the manufacturing industry was 8.8 billion kwh / day, an increase of 350 million kwh / day and 230 million kwh / day respectively as compared with the same period of last year and the previous month.

Chart 3 Monthly average daily manufacturing usage by manufacturing sector since 2016 and 2017

Third, in addition to the chemical industry, the other high-load-power industries recorded year-on-year drop in electricity consumption

1-10 months, chemical raw materials, non-metallic mineral products, ferrous metal smelting and non-ferrous metal smelting four high-energy industry total electricity consumption of 1.4962 trillion kwh, an increase of 4.5%, an increase over the previous year 6.0 Percentage points; the total electricity consumption accounts for 28.8% of the total electricity consumption of the whole society, the contribution rate of electricity consumption growth of 19.9%, of which 366.4 billion kWh of chemical industry, an increase of 4.1% 2.6 percentage points higher than that of the same period of last year; electricity consumption of building materials industry was 270.2 billion kwh, up 3.5% over the same period of last year, an increase of 1.7 percentage points over the same period of last year; electricity consumption of ferrous metal smelting industry was 404.4 billion kwh, up YoY 1.4%, an increase of 7.6 percentage points over the same period of previous year; 455.2 billion kilowatt hours of non-ferrous metal smelting industry, an increase of 8.5% over the same period of last year, an increase of 9.7 percentage points over the same period of last year.

In October, the electricity consumption of the four major high-energy-load industries totaled 153.6 billion kWh, an increase of 1.2% over the same period of last year, a deceleration of 1.5 percentage points over the same period of last year and accounting for 29.9% of the total electricity consumption of the whole society. Among them, the chemical industry 37.7 billion kWh of electricity consumption, an increase of 6.7%, an increase of 7.7 percentage points over the same period the previous year; building materials industry electricity consumption of 30.1 billion kWh, an increase of 1.5% growth rate down 8.2 percentage points over the same period the previous year; Ferrous metals industry electricity consumption of 43.3 billion kwh, an increase of 0.4% growth rate down 1.8 percentage points over the same period the previous year; non-ferrous metal smelting industry 42.4 billion kwh, down 2.7% over the same period the growth rate down 4.5 percentage point.

Figure 4 2016, 2017 key sectors monthly electricity consumption situation

Fourth, power generation capacity growth rate down year on year, thermal power generation growth rate increased year on year

As of the end of October, the installed capacity of 6,000 kilowatts and above power plants nationwide reached 1.67 billion kilowatts, an increase of 7.3% over the same period of previous year, a deceleration of 3.5 percentage points from the same period of last year, of which hydropower was 3.0 billion kilowatts, thermal power was 1.08 billion kilowatts, nuclear power was 35.82 million kilowatts, From January to October, the generating capacity of power plants above designated size in China reached 51.94 trillion kilowatt hours, up 6.0% over the same period of previous year, an increase of 2.1 percentage points over the same period of last year.

From January to October, hydropower generated by hydropower plants above designated size in China reached 923.4 billion kwh, an increase of 2.2% over the same period of last year, a deceleration of 4.5 percentage points from the same period of last year. The top three provinces generating hydropower in China are Sichuan (246.9 billion kwh) , Yunnan (187.8 billion kWh) and Hubei (129.3 billion kWh). The total hydroelectric power generation accounted for 61.1% of the national hydropower generation, up by 6.6%, 10.4% and 7.6% respectively over the same period of last year.

From January to October, the thermal power generation capacity of power plants above designated size in China reached 3,799.3 billion kwh, an increase of 5.4% over the same period of last year, an increase of 3.6 percentage points over the same period of last year, with the exception of Beijing (-10.9%), Hainan %), Shandong (-1.7%) and Yunnan (-1.5%), with all other provinces enjoying positive growth in thermal power generation, of which Ningxia (25.1%) grew by more than 20%; and provinces with a growth rate of over 10% (18.6%), Guangdong (13.7%), Guangxi (12.0%), Jiangxi (11.9%), Qinghai (11.3%) and Shanxi (10.0%).

1-10 months, the national nuclear power generation 203.6 billion kwh, an increase of 18.4%, the growth rate down 4.0 percentage points over the same period the previous year.

From January to October, the generating capacity of wind power plants of 6,000 kilowatts and above in the country was 239.7 billion kilowatts, an increase of 25.3% over the same period of last year, a deceleration of 1.9 percentage points from the same period of last year.

V. Except for hydropower, utilization of other types of power generation equipment increased year-on-year

From January to October, the cumulative average utilization hours of power generation equipment nationwide reached 3,109 hours, a decrease of 13 hours over the same period of last year.

Figure 5 Utilization hours from January to October in the calendar year 2005

By type, from January to October, the average utilization hours of hydropower equipment in the country were 3024 hours, 44 hours lower than the same period of last year. Among the seven provinces with hydropower installed capacity exceeding 10 million kilowatts, Hunan, Guizhou, Guangxi and Sichuan dropped year on year , With Hunan, Guizhou and Guangxi dropping by more than 200 hours, decreasing by 292, 267 and 260 hours respectively year-on-year, with an increase of 305, 269 and 71 hours respectively over the same period of last year in Yunnan, Hubei and Qinghai; meanwhile, the average utilization hours of thermal equipment nationwide were 3431 hours, Over the same period an increase of 26 hours.According to the provinces, a total of 12 provinces across the country thermal power equipment utilization hours more than the national average, of which Hebei, Jiangsu, Ningxia and Jiangxi over 4000 hours, Yunnan and Tibet were only 974 and 77 hours respectively Compared with the same period of last year, the number of thermal power utilization hours in 18 provinces in the country increased year-on-year. Among them, Fujian increased more than 400 hours and increased 460 hours over the same period of last year, while Jiangxi increased by more than 300 hours and increased by 341 hours over the same period of last year. Guangdong, Hunan and Zhejiang increased more than 200 hours year- Ningxia, Shanxi and Shanxi increased more than 100 hours, while Beijing, Chongqing and Shandong reduced more than 300 hours year on year and 390 respectively year on year decrease, 341 and 335 hours, respectively, while those in Guangxi, Hainan, Gansu and Jiangsu decreased by more than 100 hours over the same period of the previous year, by 198, 182, 113 and 106 hours respectively; the average utilization of nuclear power equipment nationwide was 5873 hours, an increase of 107 hours over the same period of last year; The utilization hour was 1,552 hours, an increase of 151 hours over the same period of last year.

Figure 6 1-October wind power installed capacity in more provinces and wind power installed capacity hours

Six, across the country, across provinces to send electricity grew

From January to October, the nationwide cross-regional power transmission completed 353.5 billion kilowatt-hours, up 11.9% over the same period of 2006. Among them, North China sent Hua Zhongzhong (UHV) 2.3 billion kwh, a year-on-year decrease of 29.3%; while North China sent East China 20.2 billion kwh, up 57.2% in the northeast; North China sent 17.5 billion kWh in North China, an increase of 3.3% over the same period of last year; Central China sent 32.3 billion kwh to East China, an increase of 6.7% over the same period of last year; Central China sent 20.7 billion kwh of energy to the South, down 0.3% KWh, an increase of 12.4% over the same period of last year; southwest China sent to East China 93.9 billion kWh, an increase of 0.4%.

From January to October, the sending power of all provinces in the country totaled 932.4 billion kwh, an increase of 11.8% from the same period of last year, of which, the output of electricity in Inner Mongolia was 126.8 billion kwh, up 11.9% over the same period of last year; the output of Yunnan was 122.9 billion kwh, up 13.4% Electricity output was 121.9 billion kWh, up by 6.8% over the same period of last year; output of Hubei was 75.9 billion kWh, up 9.4% over the same period of last year; output of Shanxi was 74.8 billion kWh, up 16.4% over the same period of last year; Guizhou delivered 53.5 billion kWh of electricity, down 17.3% Anhui sent 43.7 billion kwh electricity, an increase of 15.7%; Ningxia sent 41.5 billion kwh of electricity, an increase of 41.9%; Xinjiang sent 36.7 billion kwh of electricity, an increase of 28.8%; Hebei sent electricity 34 billion kwh, an increase of 6.4 %; Shaanxi sent 32 billion kilowatt hours of electricity, an increase of 14.3%; Gansu sent 29 billion kilowatt hours of electricity, an increase of 38.7%; Liaoning sent 25.1 billion kilowatt hours of electricity, an increase of 3.1%.

In October, the nationwide power transmission across regions reached 42.9 billion kwh, up 18.8% from the previous year, of which 2.6 billion kwh was sent from North China to East China, an increase of 120.8% over the same period of last year; 1.9 billion kwh was sent from North China to North China, an increase of 5.7% over the same period of last year; 5.1 billion kwh, an increase of 254.8% over the same period of last year; central China sent 2.8 billion kwh of energy to the south, an increase of 73.4% over the same period of last year; northwestern and central China sent 8.4 billion kwh of energy to North China and Central China, an increase of 22.5% %.

In October, the province sent a total of 105.1 billion kilowatt hours of electricity, an increase of 15.5% .Among them, Sichuan sent electricity 16.7 billion kwh, down 4.3%; Yunnan sent 15 billion kwh, down 3.8%; Inner Mongolia sent 137 Output of 12.2 billion kWh in Hubei, an increase of 149.2% over the same period of last year; output of 77.7 billion kWh in Shanxi, an increase of 17.7% over that of the same period of last year; output of 5.1 billion kWh in Ningxia, an increase of 5.8% over the same period of last year; delivered in Guizhou Electricity was 4.7 billion kwh, down 2.4% YoY; Gansu delivered 3.6 billion kWh of electricity, up 22.3% over the same period of last year; Anhui sent 3.4 billion kWh of electricity, up 32.7% over the same period of last year; and Xinjiang sent 3.3 billion kWh of electricity, up 51.8% Shaanxi sent 3.2 billion kwh electricity, an increase of 13.9%.

Seventh, new generating capacity increased year on year, of which solar power close to half

From January to October, the nationwide new generating capacity of infrastructure projects was 99.82 million kilowatts, with a year-on-year increase of more than 200 million kilowatts, of which 8.93 million kilowatts of hydropower, 33.21 million kilowatts of thermal power, 2.18 million kilowatts of nuclear power, 10.7 million kilowatts of wind power and solar power 44.8 million kilowatts.Hydropower, thermal power, wind power and solar power generation put into operation 26,555,68 and 21.63 million kilowatts more than the same period of the previous year respectively.

VIII. Except for solar power generation, the investment in other types of power generation decreased year on year

From January to October, the power projects of major power generation enterprises in China completed an investment of 1977.27 billion yuan, down 17.2% over the same period of the previous year, of which hydropower amounted to 39.2 billion yuan, down 22.5% over the same period of last year; 57.3 billion yuan of thermal power dropped by 25.3% over the same period of last year; 31.5 billion yuan of nuclear power, Down by 16.0% over the same period of last year; wind power 47.1 billion yuan, down 14.0% over the same period of last year. Complete investments in clean energy such as hydropower, nuclear power and wind power accounted for 71.0% of the total investment in power supply, up 3.1 percentage points from the same period of last year.

1-10 months, the national grid project completed an investment of 412.6 billion yuan, an increase of 0.6%.

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