Sichuan residents and agricultural electricity use strict government pricing standards, which are purchased and sold by power grid companies.
Statistics show that from August 14th to 20th, some high-capacity enterprises in Sichuan Province have given up about 7 million kilowatts of electricity load by actively implementing staggered and peak-avoiding production.
More than 4,000 companies in Sichuan have responded to the initiative to avoid peaks.
Since the beginning of summer, due to the surge in demand for electricity due to extreme high temperature, the State Grid Sichuan Electric Power Company sold 29.087 billion kWh of electricity in July, a year-on-year increase of 19.79%, setting a new record for the highest electricity sales in a single month.
Many people in Yanjiang District, Ziyang City, Sichuan Province saw a message in the WeChat group to the effect that the electricity price will rise to 1.8 yuan/kWh during the peak hours of electricity consumption from 8:00 to 12:00 and 17:00 to 21:00 every day.
The State Grid Yanjiang District Power Supply Company in Ziyang City immediately refuted the rumor and stated that the residential electricity charging standards have not changed compared with the past.
Since July this year, Sichuan has encountered extreme high temperature weather once in 60 years, with the average temperature hitting a record high for the same period in history, and the "stove" mode has also been opened in many places across the country.
Will residential electricity prices go up?
How are electricity bills priced?
What are the effective measures to escort people's electricity use?
On these issues, the reporter interviewed the Sichuan Provincial Development and Reform Commission and the State Grid Sichuan Electric Power Company.
"Sichuan residents and agricultural electricity use strict government pricing standards, which are purchased and sold by power grid companies. The pricing is kept at a relatively stable level all year round and will not fluctuate greatly." According to the relevant personnel of the Sichuan Provincial Development and Reform Commission, the State Grid Sichuan Province The electricity supply area of the electric power company is divided into three categories: "residential life", "agricultural production", "industrial and commercial and others". Except for a few remote ethnic areas, the whole province implements a unified electricity price policy. keep it steady.
In the published electricity price list of Sichuan Power Grid Catalogue, the column of "Residents' Living Electricity" shows that the electricity price for urban and rural residents is divided into 3 grades. From 280 kWh to 0.6224 yuan/kWh, and above 281 kWh, 0.8224 yuan/kWh.
Are the electricity bills fixed?
According to the relevant policies of the Sichuan Provincial Development and Reform Commission, users of Sichuan Power Grid will enjoy the policy of “preferential electricity charges during the high water season” from June to October each year, that is, in the season when the river is full of water, the surplus electricity will be returned to the majority of residents in the form of price subsidies. .
The "Electricity Rate Preferential During High Water Season" policy aims to benefit the public and at the same time encourage the consumption of abandoned water.
However, the situation in Sichuan this year is different from previous years. The usual "high water season" has become a "dry season".
On August 16, news came from several major reservoirs in Sichuan that the water storage in the reservoirs almost fell to the dead water level.
This round of continuous high temperature weather, in addition to the temperature constantly breaking through the extreme value, the precipitation is also the lowest in the same period in history, and the inflow of rivers is severely dry, causing the rare phenomenon of "reverse dry season" in the reservoir capacity.
At the same time, the extreme high temperature weather also prompted a surge in the use of electricity loads.
Taking July as an example, the electricity load in Sichuan reached a maximum of 59.1 million kilowatts, and the air-conditioning load accounted for 40% to 50%.
As the country's largest hydropower province, Sichuan's installed hydropower capacity has exceeded 90 million kilowatts. For five consecutive years, the hydropower output has exceeded 130 billion kilowatt-hours, ranking first in the country. This year, it began to purchase electricity.
"In order to ensure residents' living electricity, Chengdu has put into use temporary transformers for the first time this year. Take a 40,000-kVA temporary transformer recently installed in the 110-kV Hongpailou substation as an example. A 1-horse air conditioner provides power protection." said Wu Xiong, squad leader of the substation maintenance team of the Substation Maintenance Center of the State Grid Chengdu Power Supply Company.
In addition, the State Grid Sichuan Electric Power Company has nearly 25,000 emergency power repair personnel on standby 24 hours a day, 940 party member service teams, party member commando teams, and more than 18,000 party members fighting on the front line of power protection.
On June 23, the Sichuan Provincial Development and Reform Commission issued the "Notice on the Issues Concerning the Trial Implementation of the Policy of Active Staggering and Avoiding Peak Load Electricity Price in Sichuan Power Grid", which is the first time that Sichuan Province has introduced the policy of actively staggering and evading peak load power price.
Statistics show that from August 14th to 20th, some high-capacity enterprises in Sichuan Province have given up about 7 million kilowatts of electricity load by actively implementing staggered and peak-avoiding production.
More than 4,000 companies in Sichuan have responded to the initiative to avoid peaks.
State Grid Corporation of China stated that it will play the role of large power grid resource allocation, organize cross-regional and cross-provincial mutual assistance, and maximize support for power supply in Sichuan and Chongqing.
At present, all surplus power in Northeast China, North China and Northwest China has been transmitted to East China, Central China, Southwest China and other places. Sichuan has implemented cross-provincial and cross-regional support according to the maximum transmission channel capacity, and all power supply channels are running at full capacity.
Under the high temperature, every kilowatt-hour of electricity in Sichuan is hard to come by.
But residential electricity bills will not rise.
(Our reporter Liu Chang)