China warned on Wednesday against the risk of power supply disruptions as people struggled to keep cool in record heat baking ...

The escalating power consumption is occurring amidst a period of extreme heat, which has also prompted China to issue its ...

Days of record-breaking heat across large swathes of China pushed power demand to an all-time high in excess of 1.5 billion ...

Sweltering temperatures are pushing up appetite for electricity in China — just not yet enough to revive the country’s spot purchases of costly liquefied natural gas.

Much of China experienced extremely hot weather, causing a record-breaking surge in electricity use, exceeding 1.5 billion kilowatts, according to a Reuters report. Authorities face a significant ...

In March, China’s power consumption rose by 4.8%. The pace of growth held in April, too, with power demand up by 4.7%.Chinese use of electricity increased to 772.1 billion kilowatt-hours (kWh ...

Reuters’ John Kemp noted in a recent column on China’s electricity consumption that in November, this increased by 9 percent on an annual basis, according to official data.

China's national electricity load exceeded 1.5 billion kilowatts on Wednesday, setting a new historic high, the National Energy Administration said, as extreme heat in wide swathes of the country ...

The China Electricity Council, the power industry’s top lobbying body, expects consumption to grow 6% in 2025. Article content Growing power demand is stymieing efforts to decarbonize the power sector ...

These conditions have strained central China’s grid. Severe heat prompted a surge in electricity use for cooling, which can comprise half or more of electricity demand on extremely hot days ...

The Chinese government is boosting domestic production and the EV industry in the name of national security. There are 14 ...

With its economy severely hampered by stringent measures to curb the spread of Covid-19, China’s oil and gas consumption declined in 2022 for the first time in decades, the International Energy ...