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2018 electricity & other energy statistics

Published on: January 25, 2019

Original title: 2018年全国电力工业统计快报数据一览表
Links: Source document (in Chinese) (link). Same statistics for (2017) (2016) (2015) (2014) (2013) (2012) (2011) (2010) (2009) (2008) (2007) (2006).

 

Note: an updated and more detailed version of the 2018 statistics is available here: (link).

 

[*: ‘Thermal’ power generation includes coal, gas, oil. In these graphs, biomass power production has been subtracted from values reported for ‘Thermal’ by the CEC (in the statistical bulletin below). Data on biomass production is from the NEA press conference (link)]

Basic electric power stats 2018

Indicator Unit 2017 2018 Change
(±, %, pc. pt)
Power production GWh 6,452,900 6,994,000 8.4
Hydro power GWh 1,194,700 1,232,900 3.2
Thermal power GWh 4,587,700 4,923,100 7.3
Nuclear power GWh 248,100 294,400 18.6
Wind power GWh 304,600 366,000 20.2
Solar power GWh 117,800 177,500 50.8
Total power cons. GWh 6,309,400 6,844,900 8.5
Primary industry GWh 66,300 72,800 9.8
Secondary industry GWh 4,407,400 4,723,500 7.2
Of which:Industry GWh 4,338,000 4,645,600 7.1
Tertiary industry GWh 958,000 1,080,100 12.7
Household power cons. GWh 877,700 968,500 10.4
Installed generation capacity MW 1,784,180 1,899,670 6.5
Hydro power MW 343,770 352,260 2.5
Thermal power MW 1,110,090 1,143,670 3.0
Nuclear power MW 35,820 44,660 24.7
Wind power MW 164,000 184,260 12.4
Solar power MW 130,420 174,630 33.9
Transmission line length (>220 kV) km 685,567 733,393 7.0
Public transformer capacity (>220 kV) MVA 3,789,340 4,022,550 6.2
Newly installed generation capacity MW 130,440 124,390 -4.6
Hydro power MW 12,870 8,540 -33.7
Thermal power MW 44,530 41,190 -7.5
Nuclear power MW 2,180 8,840 306.3
Wind power MW 17,450 21,000 20.3
Solar power MW 53,410 44,730 -16.2
Transmission line length (>220 kV), additions km 41,413 41,035 -0.9
Newly installed converter capacity MW 79,000 32,000 -59.5
Substation capacity (>220 kV), additions MVA 242,310 220,820 -8.9
Completed investment in electric power projects Million RMB 823,900 809,400 -1.8
Of which:Completed investment in power generation Million RMB 290,000 272,100 -6.2
Of which:Hydro power Million RMB 62,200 67,400 8.4
Thermal power Million RMB 85,800 77,700 -9.4
Nuclear power Million RMB 45,400 43,700 -3.8
Wind power Million RMB 68,100 64,200 -5.7
Of which:Completed investment in power grid Million RMB 5,339 5,373 0.6
Coal consumption, net, (as standard coal equivalent) in power plants 6 MW and above g/kWh 309 308 -2.0
Power plant productivity (full load hours; 6 MW+ power plant avg.) hours 3,790 3,862 73
Hydro power hours 3,597 3,613 16
Thermal power hours 4,219 4,361 143
Nuclear power hours 7,089 7,184 95
Wind power hours 1,949 2,095 146
Transmission loss rate % 6.48 6.21 -0.3

Note:1. Power production, total electricity consumption and generation capacity data are industry statistics totals from the China Electricity Council。
2. Wind and solar power generation and generation capacity statistics are for grid-connected capacity。
3. Due to differences in statistical standards, confirmation of moment of grid connection, and other reasons, there are certain discrepancies in data on total and newly installed generation capacity。
4. Data for Xinjiang Autonomous Region based on statistical collection methods used by the Xinjiang Electric Power Company。
5. Completed investment data are projects included in the CEC power industry statistics for large power companies。

 

 

Additional statistics from NBS:

Original title: 2018年12月份规模以上工业增加值增长5.7%
Links: Source document (in Chinese) (link).

Key industrial production data (large scale industry) for December 2018

January-December
Amount YoY Increase
(%)
Vehicles 1000 units 27,968 -3.8
Of which:Sedan 1000 units 11,601 -1.8
Sport utility vehicles (SUV) 1000 units 9,274 -6.7
Of which:“New Energy Vehicles" 1000 units 1296 40.1
Generators (power generation equipment) MW 106,010 -9.3
Raw coal kt 3,545,910 5.2
Coking coal kt 438,200 0.8
Crude oil kt 189,110 -1.3
Crude oil processing capacity kt 603,570 6.8
Natural gas Million cubic meter 161,000 7.5
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