Liaoning power supply lags demand by 10%

Reuters reported that electricity supply has trailed demand by up to 1.5 gigawatts or about 10% of demand, in Liaoning one of China's leading industrial bases and home to several major refineries.

The northeastern province had placed power use restrictions on some industrial users especially energy-intensive ones as early as in June, as coal shortage and poor coal quality curbed power output..

Nearly half of Chinese provinces have been rationing power in the summer because coal fired power plants, which produce some 80% of output, were operating with dwindling coal stocks even as demand surged on hot weather.

Coal shortages and supply tightness had been reported in many provinces as power plants, many of them state owned, were either unwilling or unable to pay spot market prices for coal given their output prices were capped by the government.

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