The National Development and Reform Commission took measures to deal with power shortages

At the peak of power usage during summer peaks, the NDRC issued a policy to ease tensions. The notice issued by the Development and Reform Commission of the People's Republic of China on regulating the price of electricity ordered yesterday: The prohibition of all forms of preferential tariff policies, the prohibition of depressing the on-grid tariffs of power generation companies and the strict implementation of the desulfurization price policy.

Preferential electricity prices have risen again The notice emphasized that without the approval of the National Development and Reform Commission, the local government and its related departments went beyond the price management authority to arbitrarily formulate measures to introduce and implement preferential tariffs, and discovered that they would not be tolerated together. The NDRC also called for a preferential tariff policy approved by the State Development Planning Commission in 1999.

This year's electricity situation is particularly grim, and the State Grid predicts that the electricity gap will reach 30 million kilowatts this summer, which is the most summer of power shortage in recent years. Liu Tienan, director of the National Energy Administration, has repeatedly stressed that unreasonable energy demand and high energy-consuming industries last year stopped short of post-production recovery, exacerbating tensions in some regions. The Development and Reform Commission pointed out that after the clean-up of preferential tariffs was completed last year, it has now risen again.

In addition to conducting rigorous investigations of preferential tariffs, the NDRC also stressed that “any unit must not change the level of on-grid tariffs of power generation companies in any name.” “Understanding the direct power supply of large users without authorization, disguised reductions in on-grid tariffs for power generation companies should be dealt with in accordance with price violations.”

Strict implementation of desulfurization price policy In addition, the National Development and Reform Commission requires strict implementation of the national desulfurization price policy, power grid companies must be timely and full payment of desulfurization price of power generation companies, on the grid companies deduct the desulfurization price of their own, as a disguised form of low electricity prices illegal Income is collected and a corresponding fine is given.

The desulfurization electricity price means that a desulphurization device is added when the coal is generating electricity to reduce the pollution. If there is a desulfurization device, the electricity that is sent out will go according to the desulfurization price.

Regarding the “high-pressure” policy of the National Development and Reform Commission, one person in the power industry stated that the fundamental reason for the introduction of the preferential tariff policy was the high investment impulse of local governments. At present, the power generation enterprises have suffered serious losses. If the relevant departments further depressively lower the on-grid tariffs or desulfurization prices of enterprises, it will inevitably affect the enthusiasm of enterprises and increase the “electricity shortage”. However, he also stressed that the fundamental way out of the governance issue is to introduce a market-based electricity price mechanism and use the force-driven mechanism to adjust the industrial structure.