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Last updated at: (Beijing Time) Wednesday, April 16, 2003

Electricity Demand Emerge in Southern, Eastern China

Electricity demand is expected to rise by 9 to 10 percent this year as power shortages has emerged in China's prosperous southern and eastern areas, according to an industry association.


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Electricity demand is expected to rise by 9 to 10 percent this year as power shortages has emerged in China's prosperous southern and eastern areas, according to an industry association.

Periodic blackouts will continue in the coming months in south China's Guangdong Province, east China's Anhui, Jiangsu and Zhejiang Provinces and Shanghai Municipality, southwest China's Sichuan Province and Chongqing Municipality, northwest China's Gansu, Qinghai and Shaanxi Provinces and Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, and north China's Hebei and Shanxi Provinces, Wednesday's China Daily quoted a report from the China Power Enterprise Association as saying.

The report blamed the strained power supply in these areas since the end of the last year on insufficient construction of power generators in past years.

Electricity demand in China is expected to exceed 1.8 trillion kilowatt-hours this year, 149 billion kilowatt-hours more than last year, due to the country's healthy economic development, according to the report.

Almost half of the country's provinces and regions have experienced blackouts since the beginning of the year, according to the State Power Regulatory Commission.

Officials said electricity growth is set to slow down in the next few months and peak this summer when people start to use air-conditioners.

Officials from the commission, however, stressed that the situation could be handled by reinforcing electricity distribution between power-rich and power-hungry areas.


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