January-February output increased 4.9% year-on-year

The reporter learned from informed sources that the growth rate of the power generation capacity of above-scale power plants in the country in January and February this year was about 4.9%. In the same period of last year, the total output of power plants above designated size was 677.3 billion kWh, an increase of 11.7% year-on-year. This means that the growth rate of electricity generation in January-February this year is less than half of last year.

Analysts pointed out that the decline in power generation growth rate was due to the high base figure last year. According to the CEC, the growth rate of power generation above the scale of the nation’s power plants created the highest growth rate since June 2010 from January to February last year ( (In addition, due to the slightly higher growth rate caused by hot weather in August 2010), the second reason is that the growth rate of electricity demand has declined.

The experts of CEC had previously expected that due to the deceleration of economic growth, the growth rate of electricity consumption in January-February this year will be between 5% and 6%, and the growth rate for the entire first quarter will be about 6%, much lower than the same period of last year. Level.

The declining trend of power generation growth is consistent with the economic trend. The National Bureau of Statistics recently announced that the industrial production above designated size in January-February 2012 showed that the industrial added value above designated size increased by 11.4% year-on-year in the first two months of this year, which was 1.4 percentage points lower than that in December 2011.

Ouyang Changyu, deputy secretary-general of the CEC, believes that with the recovery of industrial production activities, the growth rate of electricity consumption will show a monthly upward trend in the first quarter, and the annual growth rate of power generation and electricity consumption will show “the lowest After the high trend.