{"id":16556,"date":"2025-08-22T17:14:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T17:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/16556\/"},"modified":"2025-08-22T17:14:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T17:14:09","slug":"china-says-july-electricity-consumption-hits-record-high-rivalling-aseans-annual-total","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/16556\/","title":{"rendered":"China says July electricity consumption hits record high, rivalling Asean\u2019s annual total"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">China\u2019s electricity consumption surpassed the 1 trillion kilowatt-hour mark in July, energy authorities said, as scorching heatwaves pushed demand to levels equivalent to the annual usage of all Asean nations combined.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Power usage in the country rose 8.6 per cent year on year to reach a historic high of 1.02 trillion kilowatt-hours (kWh), according to data released by China\u2019s National Energy Administration on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The level was more than double that of a decade ago and comparable to the annual electricity use of Asean, state broadcaster CCTV reported.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">By sector, electricity use in the primary industry &#8211; including agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry and fisheries &#8211; grew the fastest, up 20.2 per cent year on year to 17 billion kWh.<\/p>\n<p>The tertiary sector, <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/economy\/policy\/article\/3318779\/china-pledges-more-consumption-incentives-service-service-sector?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">covering services<\/a>, consumed 208.1 billion kWh, marking a 10.7 per cent increase, while the secondary industry &#8211; such as manufacturing, construction and mining &#8211; used 593.6 billion kWh, a 4.7 per cent rise.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The surge in electricity usage came as industrial output grew 5.7 per cent year on year in July \u2013 slower than June\u2019s 6.8 per cent and below Wind\u2019s 5.82 per cent forecast, according to figures from the National Bureau of Statistics released earlier this month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"China\u2019s electricity consumption surpassed the 1 trillion kilowatt-hour mark in July, energy authorities said, as scorching heatwaves pushed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16557,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[174],"tags":[2567,14964,14971,14961,14970,79,381,14963,1360,179,18,14969,5009,14967,8749,19,17,14965,10290,14962,14966,14968,13910,13911],"class_list":{"0":"post-16556","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-agriculture","9":"tag-anhui","10":"tag-animal-husbandry","11":"tag-asean-nations","12":"tag-biomass","13":"tag-business","14":"tag-china","15":"tag-chinas-national-energy-administration","16":"tag-construction","17":"tag-economy","18":"tag-eire","19":"tag-fisheries","20":"tag-forestry","21":"tag-henan","22":"tag-hubei","23":"tag-ie","24":"tag-ireland","25":"tag-manufacturing","26":"tag-mining","27":"tag-shaanxi","28":"tag-shandong","29":"tag-sichuan","30":"tag-solar","31":"tag-wind"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16556\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}