Tuesday, October 29, 2024

China Energy

 



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China Energy

Coal still accounts for about 60% of China’s power generation, despite a surge in hydropower earlier this year after abundant rainfall, which reduced the share of coal in the country’s energy mix during the summer.

But hydropower saw a sharp decline in September, which boosted the use of thermal coal for power generation amid surging power demand in the world’s second-largest economy.

China’s thermal power generation, which is overwhelmingly coal-fired, jumped by 8.9% last month, per official data cited by Reuters’s columnist Clyde Russell.

Total power generation rose by 6% in September from a year earlier as electricity demand has started to outpace China’s economic growth in recent years.

Power demand jumped by 8.5% in September from the same month last year, while year to date, Chinese power consumption also rose by a similar percentage, 7.9% year-over-year, per the data quoted by Reuters’s Russell.

Power consumption in data centers, big data, and cloud computing jumped by 33% between January and June compared to the same period in 2023.

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