China’s NDRC pledges adequate coal supplies

摘要

China’s National Development and Reform Commission said the nation has adequate coal supplies for winter amid rising concerns that robust power demand from the industrial sector has worsened a supply gap in coal markets. A spate of cities started to limit electricity supplies to industrial users amid power shortages. Hydro power generation declined sharply in southern provinces like Guangdong, while gas-fired power units were understood to be running at lower utilization rates as generators scrambled to find prompt liquefied natural gas supplies.