China Power Demand Has Slowest Start to Year in Three Years
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China’s power consumption had the weakest start to a year in at least three years as industrial output in the world’s biggest energy user slowed.
Electricity consumption in January and February climbed 5.5 percent from the same period in 2012 to 789.2 billion kilowatt-hours, the National Energy Administration said on its website today. That’s the slowest pace among available NEA data going back to 2011. Growth was 6.7 percent in the first two months of last year and 12.3 percent in 2011.