(Combating New Crown Pneumonia) NDRC announces 5% discount on corporate electricity prices for 5 consecutive months
China News Agency, Beijing, February 22 (Reporter Zhou Rui) China's National Development and Reform Commission released news on the 22nd that in order to support the resumption of work and production, and to cope with the difficulties, the company will gradually reduce the cost of electricity.
It is reported that the agency has issued a notice that from February 1 to June 30, 2020, except for users in high energy-consuming industries, which have been reduced in stages, the general industrial and commercial and other electricity prices and electricity prices for large industrial customers are now being used. Electricity cost.
When the power grid company calculates and collects the electricity charges of the above-mentioned electricity users (including those who have participated in market transactions), it will uniformly settle at 95% of the original household electricity price level. For the electricity bills that users have paid before, power grid companies have to refund or deduct them according to the price reduction standards.
Prior to this, during the period of epidemic prevention and control, due to the temporary inability to start work normally, a large number of companies returning to work, the production capacity of protective material production companies to expand capacity, increase electricity consumption, and the need for electricity and electricity protection for new and expanded medical facilities in various places, the National Development and Reform Commission On July 7, a supportive two-part tariff system was introduced during the epidemic prevention and control period.
The policy focuses on reducing the burden of the two-part power user's capacity (demand) electricity bills, and exempting high-reliability power supply fees for new and expanded medical fields. This time the National Development and Reform Commission made it clear that the policy will also be implemented until June 30.
According to the National Development and Reform Commission, it is estimated that this price reduction policy will benefit about 50 million users, involving about 3.2 trillion kilowatt-hours of electricity consumption, accounting for about three-fourths of the electricity of all industrial and commercial users. (RMB, hereinafter the same), calculated by a 5% reduction, can reduce 3.3 points per kilowatt-hour, it is estimated that from February to June can reduce the cost of electricity for enterprises by about 44 billion yuan.
In addition, preliminary estimates of the supportive two-part price policy can reduce the cost of electricity used by enterprises by approximately 15 billion yuan. The two policies together can reduce the cost of electricity used by enterprises by about 59 billion yuan. (Finish)