The growth of electricity consumptions has been fluctuated quite obviously since this year. And data shows that, from January to February, the growth rate for the whole society electricity consumptions was 4.5%, and the growth rate for the whole society electricity consumptions from February to June was 13.7%, 7.2%, 4.6%, 5.3% and 5.9% respectively, but the same fell down to 3.0% in July, which pulled down the growth rate for the whole society electricity consumptions from January to July by 0.4% compared with the growth rate for the whole society electricity consumptions from the first six months.

As pointed out by Zhou Dadi, deputy director of the National Energy Experts Consulting Committee, the slump in electricity consumptions mainly lied in the adjustments in industrial field. Currently, the industrial electricity consumptions in China takes up 70% of the electricity consumed by whole society, and in which, the consumptions by the high energy consumption industries takes up around half of that by industrial consumptions, and the fluctuations is closely related to the productions in these industries. 

The industrial operation data for July as announced on August 13th also supports the viewpoint.  The statistical data shows that in July, the added-value of the scaled industries rose 9.0% compared with that of the same time period of last year, and the growth rate fell by 0.2% compared with that in June, and in which, the added-value of ferrous-metals smelter and pressing and extension processing industry grew for 5.2%, fell by 1% compare with that in June.

Coal & Power Data Analysis

  Bohai Thermal Coal Price Index (BSPI) (Unit: yuan / ton).
Published：Aug 20, 2014