Recently, various parts of China have successively announced the annual electricity consumption data in 2023, as a "barometer" of the operation of the national economy, in 2023, what changes have taken place in China's electricity consumption, and what new trends are reflected?
According to data from the China Electricity Council, in 2023, the electricity consumption of the high-tech and equipment manufacturing industry will increase by 11 percent year-on-year3%, leading the overall level of the manufacturing industry by 39 percentage points.
In Jiangsu, the annual electricity consumption reached 380600 million kilowatt hours, a year-on-year increase of 26%, the largest proportion of the increase is in the electrical machinery and equipment manufacturing industry, reaching 181%。
Li Hu, director of the Energy Research Office of the Planning and Development Research Center of the State Grid Jiangsu Economic Research Institute: Last year, the demand for the Internet of Things, 5G information technology, new energy vehicles and other fields increased, which led to the rapid growth of electricity in Jiangsu's electrical machinery and equipment manufacturing industry.
From the perspective of subdivisions, the photovoltaic equipment and components manufacturing industry is one of the most rapidly developing industries, with a year-on-year increase of 87% in annual electricity consumption5%。
The same trend is also emerging in Zhejiang, where the electricity consumption of Zhejiang's photovoltaic equipment and components manufacturing industry will increase by more than 50% year-on-year in 2023.
Sun Gang, Deputy Director of the Digital Business Office of the State Grid Zhejiang Marketing Service Center: Zhejiang's industrial electricity consumption is showing "one plus one subtraction", which intuitively reflects the trend of industrial upgrading. The "reduction" is reflected in the high-energy industries such as aluminum smelting, and the electricity consumption decreased by 13 year-on-year32%, and the electricity consumption of photovoltaic equipment and components manufacturing industry is doing "addition".
In Guangdong, Guangxi and other five provinces and regions in the operation area of China Southern Power Grid, the electricity consumption of high-tech and equipment manufacturing industry increased by 7% year-on-year6%, an increase of 3 percent over 20195 percentage points, reflecting the acceleration of the transformation and upgrading of the industrial economy.
In 2023, China's green electricity consumption will increase.
Another significant feature of the change in electricity consumption in 2023 is that the amount of "green" is getting higher and higher. The consumption of electricity generated by renewable energy, i.e., green electricity, has increased.
Full coverage is a key word for China's green electricity consumption in 2023, and China has become the world's largest green certificate market by issuing green certificates to all renewable energy power generation projects that have been filed. The issuance of green certificates for the whole year is expected to reach about 17.6 billion, and the transaction volume of green electricity reached 61.1 billion kWh, which is 7. % in 20228 times and 105 times.
Hao Yingjie, Secretary-General of China Electricity Council: 2023 is a big year for China's green power consumption, and the growth of this green power consumption is, on the one hand, the enhancement of the acceptance awareness of green power by market players, which has turned back and promoted the consumption of new energy.
In Beijing, since January this year, more than 8,000 electric buses have used green electricity, which is also the first time that Beijing's electric buses have been charged with green electricity, realizing "zero-carbon" bus travel, which alone can reduce carbon dioxide emissions by nearly 300,000 tons a year.
Wang Qin, Director of the Marketing Department of the Capital Electric Power Trading Center: We have selected public transport electric vehicles as pilots, actively looking for green power sources, and supporting users to successfully purchase green electricity across provinces in a market-oriented manner3700 million kWh to provide green electricity for electric buses in Beijing.
Not long ago, the National Energy Administration issued 11.91 million green electricity certificates to 12 power generation companies and 10 power users, and more than 10 billion kWh of renewable energy will be consumed according to the conversion of 1,000 kWh of renewable energy electricity according to one green certificate.
In 2023, the electricity consumption of emerging industries will maintain a high growth momentum.
In 2023, there is another feature of China's electricity consumption that is also very prominent, that is, the electricity consumption of emerging industries has maintained a high growth momentum.
In 2023, China's new energy vehicle sales are hot, affected by this, the electricity consumption of related manufacturing industries in many places across the country has increased significantly, in Anhui and Hainan, the electricity consumption of new energy vehicle manufacturing has doubled, Anhui's new energy vehicle manufacturing electricity consumption increased by more than 117% year-on-year, and Hainan exceeded 124%.
At the same time, the electricity consumption of the car sector is also rising rapidly. Statistics show that in 2023, the electricity consumption of the charging and swapping service industry will increase by 78% year-on-year1%。From the perspective of regional distribution of charging volume, Guangdong, Jiangsu, Hebei, Sichuan, and Zhejiang rank in the top five.
Not only the rapid growth of electricity consumption in the charging service industry, but also the electricity consumption of China's tertiary industry has maintained a rapid recovery growth momentum, data show that in 2023, the electricity consumption of China's tertiary industry will increase by 12 year-on-year2%, which is higher than the primary and secondary industries.
In many places in China, the ice and snow industry is continuing to release the heat effect. Taking Chongli, Hebei Province as an example, in 2023, the electricity consumption of the whole society here will reach 599.04 million kWh, of which the electricity consumption of the ski resort will reach 117.34 million kWh, a year-on-year increase of 15%, accounting for nearly 20% of the total electricity consumption in the entire region.