Energy Bureau: Poor enthusiasm for power plants

Peak power is still tight in summer power will accelerate the production of thermal power international energy network news: Yesterday afternoon, as China's energy authority, the National Energy Administration held a media briefing in Beijing to respond to the power shortage and coal supply situation for the first time.

When answering a reporter’s question, Xu Yongsheng, the director of the National Energy Administration’s Electric Power Department, said that the low enthusiasm for generating electricity from power plants is only one of the reasons for the power shortage in parts of the region this year. The main reason is that the electricity demand has grown too fast. In addition, there are supply factors such as the decline in hydropower output and the decrease in coal imports.

Prior to this, many energy experts attributed this round of electric power shortage in some regions to the low enthusiasm of the power plant. In China's power market, the price of “market coal” has opened up because of the liberalization of the market. The “planned electricity” whose price is still under the control of the government departments is lower in price, so there is a “strange phenomenon” in which more and more losses are generated in the power plants, and power plants are generally not enthusiastic about generating electricity.

In this regard, Xu Yongsheng said that of course this is one of the reasons, but it should also be noted that since the beginning of this year, the growth rate of electricity generation has maintained a double-digit growth.

“It should be noted that China’s electric power installation is 10 billion kilowatts. For every 10% increase, it is equivalent to increasing the scale of the electricity market in Brazil or a medium-sized European developed country. This development rate is still very fast.” Xu Yongsheng believes that After this year's power system has achieved such high growth, it should not deny that the power system has fulfilled its social responsibilities.

He believes that the reason for the tight supply and demand of electricity in some regions this year is mainly due to the excessive growth of electricity demand. In addition, there are also supply factors such as the decline in hydropower output and the decrease in coal imports.

“From a deeper level, the (electricity shortage) is still largely due to irrational economic structure, extensive development methods, excessive dependence on energy and resource consumption, and the need for institutional mechanisms to be improved.” Xu Yongsheng said that in the second half of the year, the government will Strict power generation and operation assessment, timely implementation of incentives and penalties, and the practice of seldom generating electricity or generating electricity in accordance with relevant regulations are strictly dealt with.

At the ventilation meeting, Xu Yongsheng also stated that after entering summer peak season this year, as industrial production continues to maintain rapid growth and air conditioners are used centrally, electricity demand will increase significantly, and overall supply and demand will remain tight.

“Do not underestimate civilian air-conditioners. From the situation of last year, the total air-conditioning (total power) in the country was about 160 million kilowatts, plus industrial production growth and other factors. In July and August this year, the overall power supply remained tight.”

On June 10th, National Development and Reform Commission held the national summer power conference on the summer television conference, Liu Tienan, director of the National Energy Administration pointed out that the current rapid growth of industrial production, especially some high-energy-consuming industries, will inevitably bring about energy demand. The rapid increase has intensified the conflict between supply and demand in summer.

Xu Yongsheng said that according to the spirit of the meeting, the government will strive to put more generator sets and transmission lines into operation during peak periods this year, on the basis of ensuring safety and quality.

This spirit was quickly interpreted by the industry as the National Development and Reform Commission will expedite the approval of some of the thermal power projects under construction this year, which in turn raises environmental concerns.

In response, Xu Yongsheng explained that there are currently 180 million kilowatts of electricity under construction in the country. The so-called accelerated production of units means that the projects that have already been put into operation on schedule and that already have a transmission channel or a load center .

Xu Yongsheng also said that due to the tightening of monetary resources some time ago, the financial status of power companies is not good, and the development of power construction is not relatively fast. To help power companies accelerate production, under the premise of ensuring quality, the state is developing a method to ease the funds of power companies. Pressure to promote production during summer electricity production. He said that the power industry is a high-reputation industry in the long run. From the early contacts, financial institutions also showed their enthusiasm for participating in the power industry.

For the first half of the year due to coal supply bottlenecks caused by power shortages in some areas, Wei Pengyuan, deputy director of the Energy Bureau, said the coal supply and demand in the second half will not be as tight as the first half.

He said that with the increase in the price of electricity in some areas and restrictions on high-energy projects, coupled with the fact that the water and electricity supply has been good since May, it has begun to exert force and can effectively alleviate the contradiction between coal supply and demand.

In addition, the government will also ensure the stable supply of coal for the current and second half of the year by promoting coal mining companies' mergers and reorganizations.

Wei Pengyuan introduced that it will speed up the merger and reorganization of coal mining companies, step up the technological transformation and acceptance of coal mines after mergers and reorganizations, and organize enterprises to put into production and increase coal supply as soon as possible.

As for the coal mines that have been suspended for production due to security risks, the Energy Administration said that they will urge enterprises to speed up the pace of rectification, organize inspections and inspections in time, and resume the production of coal mines that have passed the inspection.