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2018 Power production stats (preliminary)

Published on: January 18, 2019

Original title: 国家能源局发布2018年全国电力工业统计数据
Links: Source document (in Chinese) (link).

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

1月18日，国家能源局发布2018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	6,844,900	8.5
Of which: primary industry power cons.	GWh	72,800	9.8
Secondary industry power cons.	GWh	4,723,500	7.2
Industrial power cons.	GWh	4,645,600	7.1
Tertiary industry power cons.	GWh	1,080,100	12.7
Household power cons.	GWh	968,500	10.4
Total installed capacity	MW	1,899,670	6.5
Of which: Hydropower	MW	352,260	2.5
Thermal power	MW	1,143,670	3
Nuclear power	MW	44,660	24.7
Wind power (grid-connected)	MW	184,260	12.4
Solar power (grid-connected)	MW	174,630	33.9
Coal consumption, net, (as standard coal equivalent) in power plants 6 MW and above	g/kWh	308	-1.8
Transmission and distribution losses	%	6.21	-0.3
Power plant productivity (full load hours; 6 MW+ power plant avg.)	hours	3,862	73
Of which：Hydro power	hours	3,613	16
Thermal power	hours	4,361	143
Power infrastructure investment	Million RMB	272,100	-6.2
Of which: Hydropower	Million RMB	67,400	8.4
Thermal power	Million RMB	77,700	-9.4
Nuclear power	Million RMB	43,700	-3.8
Power grid infrastructure investment	Million RMB	537,300	0.6
Installed generation capacity, additions	MW	124,390	-4.6
Of which：Hydro power	MW	8,540	-33.7
Thermal power	MW	41,190	-7.5
Substation capacity (>220 kV), additions	MVA	220,820	-8.9
Transmission line length (>220 kV), additions	km	41,035	-0.9

Note：1、全社会用电量指标是全口径数据。
2、三次产业划分按照2018年3月《国家统计局关于修订<三次产业划分规定(2012)>的通知》（国统设管函〔2018〕74号）相应调整，为保证数据同口径可比，上年同期数据根据新标准重新进行了分类。