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Power demand surges on industrial recovery, winter
    2020-12-25  08:53    Shenzhen Daily

CHINA’S harsh winter and stunning manufacturing recovery this year have pushed up electricity demand across the country’s industrial belt.

The surge in demand also comes as the cold hampers the ability of renewable energy to fill the gap left by a severe coal shortage, raising doubts about the reliability of cleaner sources to power the world’s second-largest economy during critical periods.

In Zhejiang Province, an economic powerhouse in eastern China, cities including Wenzhou and Yiwu told factories to scale back production and government departments were told not to turn on heat unless temperatures fall below 3 Celsius.

“We’re already running late in fulfilling our orders and now the government wants us to shut down for one day every three days. This is not helping at all,” said a factory owner in Yiwu, declining to be named due to the sensitivity of the matter.

Meanwhile, Hunan and Jiangxi provinces also imposed curbs on factory and residential power usage.

Across China, November power consumption rose 9 percent from a year earlier, with industrial demand up 10 percent, fuelled by a resurgent economy and a 21 percent increase in exports to meet COVID-driven demand for electronics, protective gear and other goods.

Coal supplies, meanwhile, are tight despite record domestic output in November as a runaway economic recovery sucks up power. (SD-Agencies)

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