China News Service, July 27th. On the 27th, at the press conference on "Accelerating the Construction of an Energy Powerful Country to Ensure Energy Security" held by the State Council Information Office, a reporter asked: There have been very hot weather in some places recently, such as the Zhejiang government's request. Electricity is being used in an orderly manner and some factories are being asked to cut production.

How would you rate some of these situations?

And will the situation get worse this summer?

  He Yang, director of the Electric Power Department of the National Energy Administration, said that since July this year, there have been some load-side responses in Zhejiang or some parts of China, mainly local load-side responses in response to peak loads, guiding users to take the initiative through market-based methods. Reduce load.

We see that after entering July, with the economic growth of our country and the temperature higher than the same period of last year, especially the continuous high temperature weather on a large scale around the world, the electricity consumption and electricity load of our country are also growing rapidly.

From July 12th to 15th, the load across the country has repeatedly hit new highs in the past few days. On July 15th, the highest power load reached 1.26 billion kilowatts, and the daily power generation reached 28.5 billion kilowatt-hours.

With the advent of the "seven down and eight up" load peak period, we expect that the national electricity load will continue to climb.

"Seven down and eight up", that is, the period from late July to early August, is the time when the traditional electricity load in our country is the highest.

  He Yang said that in accordance with the deployment of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council, the National Energy Administration has started early this year and formulated a number of powerful measures to make every effort to ensure various guarantees for the peak summer season. I will take this opportunity to report the relevant situation to everyone. .

  First of all, four aspects of work have been done in the aspect of power security.

One is to continuously strengthen the monitoring and analysis of power supply and demand.

We coordinate and link with the meteorological department, conduct docking meetings with local energy authorities, power grids, power generation, and industry associations, study and judge the national electricity supply and demand situation, and timely, comprehensively and accurately grasp the electricity supply and demand situation in each province, and promptly respond to problems that arise. Make a response, and at the same time guide localities and enterprises to make detailed and practical response plans to ensure power supply, so as to know what to do.

  The second is to promote the construction and commissioning of major power projects.

In the first half of this year, a total of 70 million kilowatts of new power sources were put into production nationwide. Since the peak summer last year, 180 million kilowatts of new power sources have been put into production nationwide, and 70 million kilowatts of new power sources have been put into production in the first half of this year.

From July last year to the end of June this year, before the peak summer, our various power sources put into production a total of 180 million kilowatts.

We have also newly put into operation the transmission channels from northern Shaanxi to Wuhan, Baihetan to Jiangsu and other inter-provincial regions, increasing the transmission capacity to East China and Central China by 12 million kilowatts.

With food in hand, don't panic.

The commissioning of these power supply and power grid projects has effectively enhanced the ability to ensure power supply and greatly enhanced our ability to ensure supply during peak summer.

  The third is to improve the guarantee of power generation fuel and the level of operation output.

At present, our country's thermal coal inventory is sufficient, and the level of thermal coal inventory has reached the best level in history.

The output of our coal power is blocked and the power generation capacity of unplanned outages has also dropped to the lowest level in history, which has further consolidated the foundation for ensuring power supply.

  The fourth is to guide all localities to do a good job of power demand side response.

In some places, power demand-side response is used, which is a universal power load management method. It is mainly through the power demand-side response, using market-oriented methods to guide power users to actively shift peaks and avoid peaks, and at the same time, they can also obtain certain economic compensation.

This method can effectively achieve the purpose of reducing the peak load, which will also promote the optimal economic benefits of the whole society.

  He Yang said that in recent years, the power load has shown a trend of rapid and rapid growth. The growth rate of power load growth is much higher than that of electricity, and the daily difference between peak and valley of electricity is increasing, that is, the difference between the highest peak and the lowest valley of electricity every day. It's getting bigger now.

In this summer peak power consumption, it is necessary to take appropriate measures to avoid peaks, but we will firmly hold the bottom line of not opening the gates, and resolutely ensure that people's livelihood uses electricity.

  He Yang said that in terms of coal security, the National Energy Administration has done several tasks: First, it has consolidated the responsibility for ensuring the supply of coal to increase coal production. We have signed a letter of responsibility for coal security and supply with various coal-producing provinces and regions, clarifying coal production. Task.

The second is to stabilize the coal supply guarantee policy, making it clear that the coal supply guarantee policy last winter and this spring will be extended to March 2023 to fully release advanced production capacity.

The third is to adhere to the national coal production scheduling, to achieve daily scheduling of the output and operation of coal-producing provinces and regions, to grasp the national coal production dynamics at the first time, and to help localities and enterprises solve practical problems encountered in the coal production process in a timely manner.

The fourth is to speed up the production of advanced production capacity.

Since the beginning of this year, the advanced production capacity of coal mine projects has been approved to 37.7 million tons per year, the production capacity has been adjusted to 9 million tons per year, and the trial production capacity has been promoted to 60 million tons per year.

Fifth, strengthen the supervision of the performance of medium and long-term thermal coal contracts, supervise the performance of medium and long-term thermal coal contracts signed by coal enterprises and power generation companies, and urge the effective performance of medium and long-term contracts to ensure the normal supply of coal for power generation.

  He Yang said that through the above measures, despite the recent occurrence of historically rare high temperature weather and the power load reaching a new high, the national power supply and demand is still stable and orderly.

Generally speaking, the National Energy Administration has confidence in the guarantee of energy and power supply, and please rest assured that the National Energy Administration will continue to make every effort to ensure the power supply during the peak summer season to ensure economic and social development and the energy consumption of people's life and production. electricity demand.

(Zhongxin Finance)