The Economic and Information Commission of
China's Guangdong Province has announced that there is currently a power shortage in the province of around 1 to 2 million kilowatts and that this may rise to a peak daily shortage of 4 million kilowatts during the summer, local Chinese media sources have reported.
Accordingly, Guangdong Province has commenced power rationing measures. Thus, eight major energy-intensive industrial sectors in the province have been ordered by the Guangdong authorities to start producing at different times of the day. The sectors in question include, among others, iron and steel, cement, electrolytic aluminum and ferroalloys.
Other provinces in
China, such as Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Hebei and Jiangxi, have also begun to carry out similar energy restriction policies.