Major Indicators of China's Power Industry for 2011
National Energy Administration annouced on January 16, 2012
Description Unit Accumulation of the year YoY Growth (%)
National power generation output 100-Million KWH 46928 11.7
First industry 100-Million KWH 1015 3.9
Second industry 100-Million KWH 35185 11.9
        Of which: Light Industry 100-Million KWH 5830 9.3
        Of which: Heavy Industry 100-Million KWH 28803 12.4
Tertiary industry 100-Million KWH 5082 13.5
Households consumption 100-Million KWH 5646 10.8
Installed capacity of power generation equipment 100-gigawatt 10.5 9
Of which: Hydropower 100-gigawatt 2.3 6.7
               Thermal power 100-gigawatt 7.6 7.9
               Nuclear power 10-megawatt 1191 10
               Nuclear power 10-megawatt 4700 43.7
National coal consumption in power supply g/kWh 330 -3
National line loss ratio % 6.31 -0.22
National average utilization hours of power equipment hour 4731 81
Of which: Hydropower hour 3028 -376
               Thermal power hour 5294 264
               Thermal power hour 7772 -69
               Wind power hour 1903 -144
Investment in power source construction $billion 58 -4.04
Of which: Hydropower $billion 14.69 1.9
               Thermal power $billion 16.47 -5.82
               Nuclear power $billion 11.57 1.46
               Wind power $billion 12.96 -3.25
Investment in grid construction $billion 57.54 3.66
Newly added capacity of power generation equipment 10-megawatt 9000 -124
Of which: Hydropower 10-megawatt 1225 -418
               Thermal power 10-megawatt 5886 55
               Nuclear power 10-megawatt 109 -65
               Wind power 10-megawatt 1600 143
Newly added capacity of transfomer substations at 220-kv or above 10-megavolt-ampere 20906 -4907
Newly added length of transmission lines 220-kv or above Kilometer 35071 -9654

Note: 1. Power generation output is sourced from the National Statistics Bureau of China, which was calculated based on power enterprises above designated scale. Power generation output and other generation indicators are collected by CEC based on power plants with capacity over 6MW.

2. Calculated based on the exchange rate of $1= CNY 6.4