china's power generation climbed 7.8% in first 7 months
2018-08-15
china's power generation continues to expand, up 7.8 percent year-on-year in the first seven months of this year, the national bureau of statistics said tuesday.
the growth was slower than the 8.3-percent expansion recorded in the january-june period.
ongoing scorching weather and a high demand for electricity from industrial manufacturers propelled the rise in power generation.
in july, china generated about 640 billion kilowatt-hours (kwh) of power, up 5.7 percent year-on-year. the daily power generation reached 20.65 billion kwh, the highest on record.
in breakdown, thermal power saw a slight increase of 4.3 percent year-on-year in july, yet the growth rate was down 2 percentage points month on month.
the growth rate of hydroelectricity picked up its pace and expanded 6 percent year-on-year, as the average rainfall increased 18.9 percent in july.
as for new energy power, wind, nuclear, and solar power generation increased 24.7 percent, 14.2 percent, 10.9 percent year-on-year, respectively.
the power generation data was released together with other energy indicators.
the output of raw coal amounted to almost 2 billion tons in the first seven months, up 3.4 percent year-on-year.
in july, coal imports surged to 29 million tons, the highest since january 2014.
crude oil output saw a slight drop of 2.1 percent in the january-july period, reaching 109.95 million tons.
china picked up the pace in importing crude oil in july, from a 4.9 percent decrease to a 3.7 percent increase.
gas output saw a 5.5 percent rise to 90.5 billion cubic meters in the first seven months this year.
gas imports continued to grow at a high speed. from january to july, china imported 49.43 million tons of gas, an increase of 34.3 percent year-on-year.