The price of on-grid electricity in 11 provinces has been raised by more than 1 cent each time

A number of power plants learned to verify that, since April 10th, the Price Division of the National Development and Reform Commission has raised some of the losses of coal-fired power companies, and the price adjustment ranged from varying degrees of loss. In Shanxi, where the price of coal was seriously upside down, the on-grid tariff was increased by 0.026 yuan/kWh. In Henan, the on-grid tariff was increased by 0.015 yuan/kWh. The electricity prices in 11 provinces in the country were raised above 0.01 yuan/kWh. However, the price adjustment only increased the loss of thermal power companies on-grid tariff, terminal sales price did not linkage, increase the cost borne by the grid companies.

According to data released by the National Bureau of Statistics today, the consumer price index (CPI) in March 2011 increased by 5.41% year-on-year, which was the highest 32-month high since August 2008. On the one hand, it is the loss of the power company, while the other is the high CPI. Because of this, the National Development and Reform Commission raised the on-grid tariff in “parts where the coal and electricity contradictions are prominent”, with little impact on the people’s livelihood and CPI. The intermediate cost was “digested” by the power grid company. .

It is understood that the overall loss of thermal power companies has a long history. According to a data released earlier by the China Electricity Council, since 2003, China's coal prices have continued to rise, and Qinhuangdao 5,500 kcal coal has risen by more than 150%, while the sales price increase has only risen by 32%. From 2008 onwards, the accumulated losses of thermal power generation for the five major power generation groups were 8.545 billion yuan, 12.815 billion yuan, 14.008 billion yuan, 11.047 billion yuan, and 13.842 billion yuan respectively, and the total loss amounted to 60.257 billion yuan.

“The root cause of the loss lies in the rise in coal prices.” The reporter saw a number of power plants in central and southern Shanxi Province that, due to huge losses for three consecutive years, corporate net assets declined sharply and the ratio of assets and liabilities was extremely high. Enterprises could not afford coal. Without electricity, the business situation has deteriorated and it has been difficult to sustain. During the “two sessions” period, Ruo Ruoyu, former general manager of China Datang Corporation, called for “If the coal price linkage mechanism is not reformed, thermal power companies will continue to lose money in 2011, and there may be power cuts in 2004 and 2005. ."

The NDRC introduced the coal-electricity linkage system at the end of 2004, which stipulates that a coal price linkage cycle should take not less than half a year. If the average coal price in the cycle changes by more than 5% from the previous cycle, the price will be adjusted accordingly. This policy was implemented twice in 2005 and 2006 respectively. Since then, coal prices have soared, "coal power" but "impulse."

How to rationalize the price mechanism of coal and electricity, the electricity has been published in the "Twelfth Five-Year Plan" proposal, the country to implement the linkage of the sale of electricity prices, that is, the establishment of electricity prices and electricity generation price of grid electricity price linkage sales, the reason is conducive to saving Use electricity, curb inefficient demand, and reasonably adjust the sales price. According to the plan, the national average electricity sales price in 2015 will exceed 0.7 yuan/degree, and the average electricity price in 2020 will exceed 0.8 yuan/degree. From the perspective of planning and research, the increase in electricity prices is inevitable.