In the first quarter, electricity consumption increased by 21.2%
Release time:
2021-04-30
The reporter learned from the National Energy Administration on the 14th that from January to March, the total electricity consumption of the whole society was 1.9219 billion kilowatt hours, a year-on-year increase of 21.2%. In terms of industries, the primary industry consumed 21 billion kWh of electricity, a year-on-year increase of 26.4%; the secondary industry consumed 1,262.5 billion kWh of electricity, a year-on-year increase of 24.1%; the tertiary industry consumed 333.1 billion kWh of electricity, a year-on-year increase of 28.2% %; the domestic electricity consumption of urban and rural residents was 305.3 billion kilowatt hours, a year-on-year increase of 4.7%.
In March, the entire society consumed 663.1 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity, a year-on-year increase of 19.4%. In terms of industries, the primary industry consumed 6.8 billion kWh of electricity, a year-on-year increase of 26.5%; the secondary industry consumed 461.5 billion kWh of electricity, a year-on-year increase of 21.2%; the tertiary industry consumed 101.8 billion kWh of electricity, a year-on-year increase of 42.9%. %; urban and rural residents’ domestic electricity consumption was 93 billion kilowatt hours, a year-on-year decrease of 5.3%.
"The results of coordinating epidemic prevention and control and economic and social development have continued to show, and the economy has continued to recover steadily; driven by the 'Chinese New Year on the spot' drive, the time for companies to start work and project construction has been significantly extended, driving the growth of industrial electricity consumption, which was the first quarter of electricity consumption. "An important factor for the rapid growth of electricity consumption." Ye Chun, chief expert of the China Energy Research Institute, analyzed that in addition, the rapid growth of electricity consumption in the first quarter was also affected by multiple factors such as the low base of electricity consumption in the same period last year due to the epidemic.
(Reporter Ding Yiting)
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