Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, May 2nd (Reporter Jiang Lin) The reporter learned from the China Electricity Council and the grid companies that since the end of March, the country ’s daily power generation and grid daily dispatched power generation have begun to exceed the same period last year. Power demand Gradually pick up. Power generation continued to increase in April. From April 1 to 15, national power generation increased by 1.2% year-on-year.

  According to data from the China Electricity Council, from the perspective of power generation, although the power generation of industrial enterprises above designated size fell by 6.8% year-on-year in the first quarter, the decline was narrowed by 1.4 percentage points from the previous two months.

  From the perspective of electricity consumption, the nationwide electricity consumption in the first quarter fell by 6.5% year-on-year. Among them, electricity consumption in seven provinces including Yunnan, Xinjiang, Inner Mongolia, Gansu, Qinghai, Jilin, and Heilongjiang achieved positive growth.

  Judging from the electricity consumption monitored by power grid companies, the electricity consumption of non-ferrous metals, pharmaceuticals, electronics, chemicals, steel, machinery and other industrial industries has basically reached or exceeded the level of the same period last year.

  In the first quarter, the electricity consumption of the tertiary industry dropped by 8.3% year-on-year. Among them, the power consumption of the information transmission, software and information technology service industries still maintained rapid growth, with a growth rate of 27%; the power consumption of the charging and replacement service industry also increased by up to 36.5%.

  According to the analysis and prediction of the State Grid Energy Research Institute, with the accelerated return of production and life to normal, the growth rate of power consumption of the entire society in the State Grid operating area will increase to about 2% to 3% in the second quarter.