Energy Experts Are Exposing Coal And Electricity To State-Owned Enterprises For &Nbsp; Man-Made Electricity Shortage In The South.

In fact, since April this year, some provinces and cities in China have already had the "off-season power shortage" ahead of schedule. Until July and August, during the summer rush season, the situation of power shortage in some provinces and cities is still grim, and it is becoming more and more serious.

According to the forecast of the China Southern Power Grid, the drought in the western region will continue to increase in the short term, and the supply and demand situation of the whole network will be more severe.

Some experts predict that this year may be the most difficult year since the big power shortage in 2004.

For the worsening power shortage, the Southern Power Grid said that the lack of coal and water were the main reasons.

Since August, the runoff of the Red River and the Wujiang river has been reduced to nearly eight or nine per cent. At present, the energy storage value of the two major catchment reaches 2 billion 500 million kwh, a decrease of 85% compared with the same period last year, and the installed capacity of the whole network is 56 million 270 thousand KW, with an average output of only 20 million KW.

At the same time, due to the lack of coal, poor coal quality, maintenance of units and other factors, the South China power grid within the scope of the thermal power unit outage and output constraints are serious.

Although the impact of natural factors on power generation can not be denied, experts say that the root cause of electricity shortage lies in the system.

Shi Wei, director of the national development and Reform Commission's economic system and Management Research Institute, believes that the situation of electricity shortage in the five provinces of the south is becoming more and more intense, not the problem of insufficient power generation capacity, but the institutional problem.

He pointed out that the power generation companies should take advantage of the national interests as a bargaining chip. In order to compete with the coal enterprises, they would rather make the units overhaul and idle ahead of time, regardless of the market power shortage situation.

In addition, the coal industry shut down small coal mines on a large scale. In order to avoid accidents, we would rather not work or seek effective increase in output, which is the destruction of state energy balance by coal state enterprises.

Therefore, "there is no electricity shortage in China, and there is a shameless power generation behavior in the power industry and the black money earned by the coal industry hysterically".

Shi Wei bluntly said that if we do not make big moves in the system and do not cut off the "sword of the Shang" in the hands of local governments and big enterprises, they will continuously bargain with the central authorities and make chips with the interests of the people.

In addition, a coal expert who asked not to be named told reporters that the lack of effective production capacity caused by competition is the fundamental reason for the shortage of electricity and coal.

He further pointed out that under the market economy condition, whether the coal enterprises or the electric power enterprises should have the problem of overproduction, but now there is a shortage of output. The main reason is that the state-owned coal enterprises and power enterprises have created the electricity shortage by means of political means to create a market economy without competition.

From the perspective of coal alone, it is effective in China.