As the year comes to an end, China’s power supply is in a state of emergency, with several provinces issuing notices of power restrictions. As early as a dozen years ago China had a number of places to pull the plug to limit electricity, but in the official claim that “China’s power generation is the world’s first”, the “black history” of pulling the plug to limit electricity why repeat it again?
According to a recent emergency notice issued by the Hunan Provincial Development and Reform Commission, the province’s maximum load has reached 30.93 million kilowatts, exceeding the historical record for winter, with a maximum daily electricity consumption of 606 million kilowatt hours and a large gap in power supply.
Soon after the official notice was issued, Changsha, Xiangtan, Yueyang, Zhuzhou, Changde and other cities asked residents to conserve electricity.
Officials demanded that in the orderly use of electricity and gas time, in addition to transportation hub facilities, medical prevention points and other places, all building facade lighting, lighting projects, etc. are shut down.
Hunan is not an isolated case. According to “China Energy News” reported on December 20, in addition to Hunan, Jiangxi, Zhejiang, Inner Mongolia and other provinces and regions, there have been recent power cuts and restrictions.
Yiwu City, Zhejiang Province, the authorities of power restrictions more stringent measures, “open three stop one” “open two stop two” or even “open one stop four”, resulting in many enterprises are rushing to work, digesting a large number of orders screaming for more.
In addition, some industry insiders predict that Sichuan, Chongqing, Jiangsu, Yunnan, Hubei, Guangdong and other places “14 Five” period will also have a shortage of electricity, the supply situation is serious.
As early as 2002, China has 12 provinces and regions to implement “pulling the gate to limit electricity”, when China’s installed power generation capacity is less than 360 million kilowatts.
However, according to official media reports, in recent years, China’s installed power generation capacity has grown rapidly, and in 2017 China’s power generation capacity was more than 6 trillion kilowatt hours, ranking first in the world. Why is the history of “pulling the plug” repeating itself now?
It is believed that the CCP’s excessive construction of hydropower plants in the middle and upper reaches of the Yangtze River and the destruction of the ecological environment have led to flooding in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River in summer and dry periods for months in winter, and it is getting worse.
According to an industry source, “Unlike the summer flood season, Hunan hydropower is difficult to increase the output level during the winter dry period, while hydropower installations account for more than 30% of the total installed power in Hunan province; wind power and photovoltaic power generation output is unstable, and the scenery cannot be counted on to cope with the peak load.”
According to public data, although China has a variety of power supply, including wind power, hydropower, thermal power, nuclear power, etc., but among them, thermal power is still the main source of power generation in China, and coal is the main fuel for thermal power generation.
Caixin reports that because of the generally tight power supply in central China this winter, wind and photovoltaic power generation capacity is much lower than in the summer, leaving uncertainty about the ability to send power out of Hunan province.
To add insult to injury, the Qishao UHV, China’s first large-scale UHV DC transmission channel to transport new energy power, which has landed in Hunan, is also difficult to handle.
A power planning expert in Hunan Province told the media that the actual transmission capacity of Qishao UHV has been less than expected, and from the operation results of the past two years, the current annual transmission capacity of this line is only a little more than half of the design capacity of 8 million kilowatts.
The person in charge of the fuel department of a power generation company in South China believes that the power limitation is related to Hunan’s “overstretched” coal situation. Hunan needs to transfer 60-70 million tons of coal from other provinces each year, the past two years, Hunan Province, only 500,000 tons of imported coal targets each year, and only a reduction in not increasing.
Recently, China-Australia relations have deteriorated due to the Australian government’s request to investigate the origin of the Chinese Communist virus (Wuhan pneumonia), and the Chinese authorities have boycotted coal and iron ore imports from Australia, which has led to a sharp increase in coal prices and a shortage of electricity supply in China.
In addition, Russia, which is officially called a “comprehensive strategic cooperation partner” by the Chinese Communist Party, has decided to drastically reduce or completely stop supplying electricity to China, citing “losses” as the reason for the country’s power company interRAO, in the midst of China’s power shortage. The news has sparked concern among Chinese public opinion, with some netizens sarcastically calling the Chinese Communist Party “another stab in the back by an old friend”.
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