According to August total electricity consumption data such as the National Energy Board issued September 14, August, total electricity consumption 397.5 billion kwh, an increase of 14.69%, growth of 2%; January-August cumulative, whole Social power consumption was 2,799.7 billion kwh, an increase of 19.34% over the same period of last year, an increase of 0.91 percentage points from January to July .
In terms of sub-sectors, the primary industry's electricity consumption was 11.2 billion kWh, a year-on-year increase of 5.88% , a decrease of 2.6% from the previous month ; the secondary industry's electricity consumption was 287.8 billion kWh, a year-on-year increase of 14.85% , a decrease of 2.1% from the previous month ; Electricity consumption was 46.7 billion kWh, a year-on-year increase of 18.27% , a year-on-year increase of 15.1% , and urban and rural residents' electricity consumption was 51.7 billion kWh, a year-on-year increase of 12.78% and a year-on-year increase of 18.3% .
In the first eight months of this year, electricity consumption increased 19.34% year-on-year. In terms of sub-sectors, the electricity consumption of the primary industry was 67.8 billion kWh, a year-on-year increase of 5.85% , a decrease of 0.28 percentage points from January to July ; the secondary industry electricity consumption was 2095.8 billion kWh, a year-on-year increase of 21.47% , an increase of 1 -In July , it decreased by 1.22 percentage points; in the tertiary industry, it reached 295.8 billion kWh, an increase of 15.72% year-on-year, an increase of 0.33 percentage points from January to July ; and the electricity consumption of urban and rural residents was 335.5 billion kWh, an increase of 12.97% . The increase was 0.1 percentage point lower than that in the January-July period. From January to August , the cumulative average utilization of power generation equipment in the country was 3163 hours, an increase of 210 hours over the same period of last year.
Among them, 2285 hours of hydropower equipment, a year-on-year decrease of 44 hours; 3,419 hours of thermal power equipment, an increase of 317 hours. From January to August , the country's new power production capacity (formally put into operation) was 47.13 million kilowatts, of which hydropower was 9.5 million kilowatts and thermal power was 32.91 million kilowatts.