From the data, we can see that there are many measures to ensure the safe and stable supply of energy and electricity during the peak summer.

CCTV News:Yesterday (July 26th) afternoon, the State Council Press Office held a routine briefing on the State Council policy. It was introduced at the meeting that during the peak summer this year, China’s electricity, coal, natural gas and other supplies were fully prepared, ensuring the safe and stable supply of energy and electricity during the peak summer.

In terms of electricity, since the beginning of summer, the national daily dispatching power generation has reached a record high of 30.171 billion kWh, which is 1.511 billion kWh higher than last year’s peak. The highest electricity load in China has reached two record highs, reaching 1.339 billion kilowatts, 49.5 million kilowatts higher than last year’s peak. Under the complicated situation of rapid growth of demand and substantial reduction of hydropower generation, comprehensive measures have been taken to ensure the safe and stable supply of electricity throughout the country.

In terms of coal, since the beginning of this year, coal production has increased steadily, imports have increased rapidly, and coal supply and demand are generally balanced. Up to now, 198 million tons of coal has been stored in power plants nationwide, an increase of more than 23 million tons compared with the same period of last year, which can be used for nearly 26 days.

In terms of natural gas, production and import have maintained steady growth, effectively ensuring people’s livelihood and industrial and commercial gas needs.

　　　　　　 Ou Hong, Deputy Secretary General of the National Development and Reform Commission:According to dispatching statistics, the apparent consumption of natural gas in the first half of the year was 194.9 billion cubic meters, a year-on-year increase of 6.7%. Since the summer, the maximum power generation gas consumption per day has exceeded 250 million cubic meters, which has strongly supported the peak output of gas and electricity.

National Development and Reform Commission: Make use of hydropower resources to ensure power supply.

At yesterday’s briefing, the National Development and Reform Commission also introduced that by the end of June this year, China’s installed hydropower capacity had reached 420 million kilowatts, accounting for 15.4% of the total installed power. Various measures such as increasing water storage in advance have been taken to ensure hydropower generation.

Since July, the six cascade hydropower stations, such as Wudongde and Baihetan, on the main stream of the Yangtze River, have made sufficient water storage arrangements before, leaving enough peak power generation capacity. Therefore, on July 11th and 12th, the power generation output reached record highs, with the highest exceeding 32 million kilowatts, which played a key role in ensuring peak power supply.

The second is to strengthen multi-energy complementarity and improve the output level of thermal power and new energy. On the one hand, urge thermal power to be fully developed to ensure that the peak capacity of thermal power can be fully exerted; On the other hand, the construction of new energy sources has been increased. In the first half of this year, wind power generation and solar power generation increased by 16% and 7.4% respectively, forming an important supplement to power generation capacity.

In addition, give full play to the advantages of large power grids and help each other.

　　　　　　 Guan Peng, head of the Economic Operation Regulation Bureau of the National Development and Reform Commission:Faced with the shortage of hydropower output in southwest China, we have fully considered the supply and demand reality of sending and receiving provinces on the basis of stabilizing the power transmission scale all the year round, rationally optimized the relevant hydropower transmission arrangements, and at the same time, fully mobilized the resources of large power grids to increase the power transmission in northwest China, which has effectively supported the water storage and supply guarantee in southwest China.

National Energy Administration: By the end of June, the power transmission from West to East had exceeded 300 million kilowatts.

At the briefing held yesterday, the relevant person in charge of the National Energy Administration introduced that by the end of June, the transmission capacity of China’s "West-to-East Power Transmission" had exceeded 300 million kilowatts, which strongly supported the power supply guarantee work.

According to the relevant person in charge of the National Energy Administration, in order to ensure the supply of energy and electricity and optimize the layout of power supply in advance, by the end of June this year, the cumulative installed capacity of power generation in China was about 2.71 billion kilowatts, up 10.8% year-on-year. In the first half of the year, the installed capacity of various power sources put into operation and connected to the grid was about 140 million kilowatts, of which the supporting power supply was about 30 million kilowatts. At the same time, increase the planning and construction of transmission channels.

Liu Mingyang, Head of Electric Power Department of National Energy Administration:Since the beginning of this year, Baihetan — Zhejiang DC Project and Northern Shaanxi — Hubei DC supporting power supply project and other projects have been put into production one after another. By the end of June, the transmission capacity of China’s "West-to-East Power Transmission" has exceeded 300 million kilowatts, of which the maximum transmission capacity of inter-provincial and inter-regional DC channels during the summer can reach 180 million kilowatts, an increase of about 17.5 million kilowatts compared with the same period last year.

　　　　　　 At the same time, China has scientifically played the role of transmission channel. Since the beginning of summer, the scale of inter-provincial and inter-regional DC power transmission has reached a maximum of about 160 million kilowatts. Except that the incoming water of hydropower in southwest China is relatively dry and the power transmission capacity is optimized and reduced, the power transmission channels in North China, Northwest China, Northeast China and Yunnan-Guizhou basically send power according to the maximum transmission capacity, which effectively guarantees the power supply in heavy load periods such as East China, Central China and Guangdong.