On Oct. 30 the National Energy Administration (NEA) said national power supply
and demand should remain broadly balanced this winter but warned extreme cold or
tight primary-energy supplies could produce localized peak shortages;
interregional transfers can help address shortfalls. The NEA has urged
power-generation capacity, grids and energy-storage projects to be completed and
commissioned on schedule, stepped up analysis of winter supply-demand, and said
it will strengthen primary-energy supply guarantees and emergency-response
capacity. On coal the NEA expects winter supply to be generally secure and is
taking measures to raise output and ensure supply: a coal production-stability
policy, intensified national supply monitoring, reinforcement of long-term
thermal-coal contracts for power, activation of reserve mine capacity, on-site
inspections and encouragement of coal imports.
