China power consumption increases 5pc

The mainland's power consumption last month reached 426.9 billion kilowatt-hours, 5 per cent higher than a year earlier, the National Energy Administration said yesterday.

Total power consumption over the first five months reached 2.06 trillion kWh, up 4.9 per cent compared with the same period last year.

In the first five months of this year, the country put 24.66 gigawatts of new installed capacity into formal operation, including 12.27 GW of thermal power and 6.84 GW of hydropower.

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