Electricity consumption is expected to grow about 5.5% in 2018
发布时间：2018-02-09
On January 31, China Power Union held the 2018 National Power industry Statistics and Analysis Conference in Beijing, and released the 2017-2018 Annual Power Supply and Demand Situation Analysis and Forecast Report. According to the report, China's overall electricity consumption was 6.3 trillion kilowatt hours in 2017, up 6.6 percent year-on-year. Considering the high base of 2017, it is estimated that the overall electricity consumption will increase by around 5.5% in 2018.
In 2017, the overall situation of power supply and demand across the country continued to ease, with obvious differences between regions. The balance of power supply and demand in North China is tight, the balance of power supply and demand in central China is basically balanced, the balance of power supply and demand is more than sufficient in east China and south China, and the surplus power supply capacity is large in northeast and northwest China. China's electricity consumption was 6.3 trillion KWH, up 6.6% and 1.6 percentage points year on year.
The report points out that the steady growth of electricity consumption in the secondary industry, the sustained and rapid growth of electricity consumption in the service sector, the rapid growth of electricity consumption in high-tech manufacturing and strategic emerging industries, and the significant substitution of electricity consumption in industry, transportation and household life are all reasons for the rapid growth of electricity consumption in 2017. In addition, the long period of extreme heat in the summer of 2017 also contributed to the rapid growth of electricity consumption, which increased by 7.8 percent in the third quarter of 2017.
In 2017, the power structure continued to optimize, and the trend of cleaner. By the end of 2017, China's installed capacity of full-caliber power generation totaled 1.78 billion kw, up 7.6 percent year-on-year. Among them, the installed generating capacity of non-fossil energy is 690 million kw, accounting for 38.7% of the total installed generating capacity and 2.1 percentage points higher than that of the previous year. The installed generating capacity increased by 133.72 million kw, and 67.2 percent of the installed capacity came from non-fossil energy sources. China Electric Union Industry
