The report said, quoting unnamed analysts of the State Grid Corp’s State Power Economic Research Institute, that power supply and demand nationwide could be in balance this year, without giving any reasons. The analysts forecast power supply could meet demand balance in north and central China, while east and south costal provinces, including Zhejiang and Guangdong, and southwest China’s Tibet Autonomous Region, would face power shortages due to bad weather, unstable coal supply, seasonal low waters and unstable installed power generating capacity. Li Xiangming, deputy director of the commission, attributed the province’s power crisis to the devastating snowstorms that hit eastern and southern parts of country before the Lunar Chinese New Year, damaging transmission lines carrying power from Hunan, Sichuan and Guizhou provinces in the west to Guangdong. To solve the power shortages, Guangdong Development and Reform Commission deputy director Li Miaojuan said on March 6 that about 10 types of energy-consuming industries, smaller steel mills, electroplating factories and dyeing plants for example, would be ordered to disconnect from the power grid. Read More