The National Energy Administration released today the electricity consumption of the whole society in 2012. In 2012, the total electricity consumption of the entire society reached 4.9591 trillion kWh, an increase of 5.5% year-on-year, and the growth rate was down by 6.51 percentage points from the previous year.

The overall power consumption demand has slowed down. In 2012, it fell first and then rose. Looking at the overall trend, due to the slowdown of global economic growth, cool summer temperatures and domestic macro-control policies, the overall power consumption demand has slowed down, and the entire society has used electricity. Volume growth experienced a process that continued to fall back to stabilizing and picking up. In quarterly terms, the total social power consumption in the first, second, and third quarters increased by 6.8%, 4.3%, and 3.9%, respectively, and the growth rate fell from quarter to quarter. However, in the fourth quarter, the growth rate of electricity consumption in the whole society reached 7.45%, which was obviously up.

Looking at the classification of electricity consumption, the decline in the growth rate of the second industry's electricity consumption has led to a noticeable drop in the growth rate of electricity consumption in the entire society. The tertiary industry and urban and rural residents have seen a rapid increase in electricity consumption. In 2012, the primary industry used 101.3 billion kWh, which was the same as the previous year. The secondary industry used 366.60 billion kWh, which was an increase of 3.9% year-on-year, and the growth rate was 8.29 percentage points lower than the same period of last year. The growth rate of electricity fell by 6.21 percentage points, accounting for 1.10 percentage points less than the same period of last year. The electricity consumption of the tertiary industry and urban and rural residents was 569 billion and 621.9 billion kWh, respectively, an increase of 11.5% and 10.7% year-on-year respectively, both maintaining a relatively rapid growth rate. The use of electricity by the tertiary industry and the urban and rural residents has boosted the growth of the entire society by 2.52 percentage points.

The decline in the growth rate of heavy industry electricity consumption is a major factor in the slowdown. The slowdown in electricity consumption in heavy industries, especially in key industries, is a major factor in the slowdown in electricity consumption growth in the entire society. In 2012, the national industrial electricity consumption was 3,601 billion kWh, an increase of 3.9% year-on-year. Among them, light and heavy industrial electricity consumption was 608.3 billion kwh and 29978 billion kwh, respectively, the year-on-year growth rate was 4.3% and 3.8%, respectively, down 4.96 and 8.92 percentage points from the same period last year.

We are pleased that the electricity, electricity, building materials, ferrous metal smelting, and non-ferrous metal smelting industries used a total of 1.4289 trillion kWh of electricity in January-November from January to November, an increase of 2.09% year-on-year, which is 3 times lower than the growth rate of electricity consumption in the entire society. The percentage point is the lowest growth rate in the past three years. But at the same time, it should also be noted that the growth rate of the four high-energy-consuming electricity sources began to rise slowly after a negative growth of -0.62% in August, and the growth rate in November has seen a large increase. The growth rate of the chemical industry in November was accelerated. It rose by 6.31 percentage points from the previous quarter.

The bottleneck of electricity on economic development has greatly eased the once-congested electricity supply problem in previous years and it has improved this year. In 2012, coal stocks of major power plants maintained a relatively high level. In the first quarter of the country, only a few units in certain provinces suffered from coal-mining shutdowns during certain periods. By the end of December, the national coal stockpiles for key power plants were 81.12 million tons, and the available days were 19 days.

Inter-provincial cross-regional electricity trading promotes the adjustment of surplus power supply and the healthy development of clean energy. In the first 11 months of 2012, the total cross-provincial inter-provincial electricity trading volume nationwide was 847.5 billion kWh, an increase of 15.5% year-on-year. In 2012, the nation’s electricity supply and demand situation was generally balanced. In the northeast and northwest regions, there is a large surplus of electric power. During wind power or large-scale hydropower projects, there is a serious phenomenon of wind abandonment and water abandonment.

Increase in the proportion of clean energy to promote energy-saving emission reduction Whether it is installed power generation or generating capacity, the proportion of clean energy in China has increased significantly in 2012.

The growth rate of wind power, hydropower, nuclear power and other clean energy power generation installations was significantly higher than thermal power. As of the end of 2012, the country's full-caliber power generation capacity was 1.144 billion kilowatts, an increase of 8.2% year-on-year. Among them, wind power installed capacity grew fastest, installed capacity reached 62.37 million kilowatts, an increase of 32.7%; followed by hydropower, installed capacity rose to 249 million kilowatts, an increase of 8.3%; thermal power installed capacity increased to 819 million kilowatts, a year-on-year increase of 6.6% Nuclear power installed capacity was 12.57 million kilowatts, an increase of 5.5% over the same period last year.

In addition, the largest increase in new installed capacity came from hydropower. In 2012, the country's new hydropower installed capacity was 19 million kilowatts, an increase of 55.1% year-on-year.

The rise in the proportion of clean energy will promote the energy saving and emission reduction of China's power industry. In 2012, the national standard coal consumption for power plants with 6000 kW and above was 326 g/kWh, a year-on-year decrease of 4 g/kWh.