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2017 electric power industry summary statistics

Published on: January 22, 2018

Original title: 2017年全国电力工业统计数据
Links: Source document (in Chinese) (link).

Please note: updated data, including electricity production data, is available here

1月22日，国家能源局发布2017年全国电力工业统计数据。

National power industry statistics table

Indicator			Unit	Annual total
Indicator			Unit	Amount	Increase
National total power consumption			GWh	6,307,700	6.6
	Of which: primary industry power cons.		GWh	115,500	7.3
	Secondary industry power cons.		GWh	4,441,300	5.5
		Industrial power cons.	GWh	4,362,400	5.5
—	—	Light industry power cons.	GWh	749,300	7
		Heavy industry power cons.	GWh	3,613,100	5.2
	Tertiary industry power cons.		GWh	881,400	10.7
	Household power cons.		GWh	869,500	7.8
Total installed capacity			MW	1,777,030	7.6
	Of which: Hydropower		MW	341,190	2.7
	Thermal power		MW	1,106,040	4.3
	Nuclear power		MW	35,820	6.5
	Wind power (grid-connected)		MW	163,670	10.5
	Solar power (grid-connected)		MW	130,250	68.7
Coal consumption, net, (as standard coal equivalent) in power plants 6 MW and above			g/kWh	309	-3
Transmission and distribution losses			%	6	-0.1
Power plant productivity (full load hours; 6 MW+ power plant avg.)			hours	3,786	-11
	Of which：Hydro power		hours	3,579	-40
	Thermal power		hours	4,209	23
Power infrastructure investment			Million RMB	270,000	-20.8
	Of which: Hydropower		Million RMB	61,800	0.1
	Thermal power		Million RMB	74,000	-33.9
	Nuclear power		Million RMB	39,500	-21.6
Power grid infrastructure investment			Million RMB	531,500	-2.2
Installed generation capacity, additions			MW	133,720	10.1
	Of which：Hydro power		MW	12,870	9.2
	Thermal power		MW	45,780	-9.3
Substation capacity (>220 kV), additions			MVA	242,630	-0.5
Transmission line length (>220 kV), additions			km	41,459	18.5

Note：Total power consumption indicators are for total installed capacity; statistics on generation capacity, grid infrastructure construction are completed projects included in the data on large-scale power industry data。