Power Output in China Rises 11.8% in January 2008

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Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--In January 2008, China's power generation output reached 289.43 billion kilowatt-hours (kWh), up 11.8% compared with the same month last year. Power output under the State Grid Corporation of China (Beijing) reached 216.78 billion kWh, an increase of 11.57% year over year, according to a monthly report recently released by the State Grid Corporation.

Regions

Northern China:
•Maximum load: 112.37 million kilowatts, up 20.37% year over year
•Monthly average load rate: 86.75%, down 0.06 percentage points

Eastern China
•Maximum load: 109.95 million kilowatts, up 16.97% year over year
•Monthly average load rate: 86.3%, down 0.9 percentage points

Central China
•Maximum load: 75.93 million kilowatts year over year
•Monthly average load rate: 86.72%, up 2.07 percentage points

Northeastern China
•Maximum load: 35.5 million kilowatts, up 16.54% year over year
•Monthly average load rate: 86.12%, down 1.06 percentage points

Northwestern China
•Maximum load: 25.96 million kilowatts, up 12.62% year over year
•Monthly average load rate: 91.43%, up 0.84 percentage points

In January, the trade volume in the National Electric Power Market reached 5.21 billion kWh, 51 million kWh over expectations. The on-grid electricity from Three Gorges reached 2.85 billion kWh, and the on-grid electricity from Jinjie reached 821 million kWh.

•Northeastern China to northern China: 352 million kWh
•Northwestern China to central China: 270 million kWh
•Three Gorges to eastern China: 687 million kWh
•Three Gorges to central China: 1.97 billion kWh
•Three gorges to southern China: 197 million kWh
•Yangcheng to Jiangsu: 824 million kWh

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