Tuesday, May 24,
Electricity supplies to industrial users will be cut further this summer.* as capacity shortages, coal supply problems and declining hydropower output combine to produce the worst power crunch in years, China’s top grid company said.
Power deficits in the 26 provinces and regions serviced by State Grid Corp of China (SGCC) would total 30 gigawatts in the summer, even if coal supplies remained steady, water levels were normal and there were no persistent high temperatures, SGCC Vice General Manager Shuai Junqing was quoted as saying by the State Grid News, a company newspaper.
This year’s shortfall would increase to about 40 GW if coal supplies tightened, water stocks were lower than normal and unusually high temperatures persisted, Shuai told a company conference on Monday.
He said power shortages could turn out to be even worse than 2004, when thousands of businesses were forced to shut
down and large parts of China were plagued by blackouts over the summer months.
The forecasts suggest national power shortages could be worse than earlier estimates as several provinces and regions serviced by China Southern Power Grid also face large supply deficits.
Source: Reuters
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