Shaanxi may ration power on short coal supply

Mar 5, 2011

Northwestern China's Shaanxi province would have to cut power supply again, as the province is facing a gap of 100 kWh electricity due to badly shortage of power coal, local paper Huashang Daily reported.

Since Feb, coal stocks in the province’s 14 main power plants have been falling by 23,000 tonnes per day on average.

Each day, an average of 83,000 tonnes coal was carried to these power plants, compared to some 106,000 tonnes being used, showed data from the dispatching center of Shaanxi Power Grid.

As of Mar 2, these 14 power plants had 659,000 tonnes coal in stock, enough for use of 3.8 days on average, nine plants only enough for less than 3 days.

Shaanxi Power Grid Corp is striving to increase coal supply to 150,000 tonnes each day.

Meanwhile, Shaanxi stopped supplying power out of the province starting from Mar 1, in a bid to secure local demand.|By en.sxcoal|