Coal fight will not affect people

In winter, under the cold current, the temperature in most areas in the north suddenly dropped below zero.

In accordance with past practice, the unit's residential heating coal surged, leading to soaring coal prices, the use of large coal power companies complained, the price of electricity rose.

One wonder is that in Shanxi, where coal is the most abundant resource in China, after several “joint letters” have been fruitless, the heads of several power plants in the province recently went to Beijing to represent some of Shanxi's power plants to express their willingness to raise tariffs to relevant state agencies.

The facts cited by the power sector are quite embarrassing. From January to August this year, thermal power companies realized a total profit of 12.2 billion yuan, a negative growth for eight consecutive months. Huaneng, Datang, Huadian, Guodian, and China Power Investment Corp.’s five major power generation groups had large losses in the thermal power business. From 2008 to 2010, the cumulative loss of thermal power in the five largest power companies reached 60.257 billion yuan. If you count other thermal power companies, the thermal power industry, which has suffered deep losses for three years, may lose hundreds of billions of yuan.

As we all know, China's electricity is a national monopoly industry, pricing is dominated by the government, while coal companies have already achieved market-oriented operations to a considerable extent. In recent years, with the rapid economic growth, the contradiction between supply and demand for energy resources has become increasingly prominent, coupled with the increase in inflationary pressure, China is again dominated by thermal power, and in the cost of thermal power generation, coal accounts for about 70% of the total cost. Therefore, the institutional contradictions of “market coal and planned electricity” have become increasingly prominent.

The data from the market shows that the price of coal is 7 times that of 9 years ago. And prices have soared. The data from the power sector shows that since the reform of the “electricity network separation and bidding online” reform of China's power industry in 2002, it has always been government pricing. In 2004, coal-electricity linkage was implemented, and coal prices rose rapidly. However, the price of electricity has only been adjusted several times, and the rate of increase has not exceeded 40%.

The reform of electricity prices was not in place, resulting in a vicious cycle of “electricity shortages—the increase in electricity prices—coal prices are increasing, and electricity shortages are growing”. Since the beginning of this year, due to the low coal-fired contract performance rate of some thermal power companies in Shanxi, they have to go to Inner Mongolia and Shaanxi to buy coal. At the same time, the huge loss caused the power plant to have no money to buy coal, no money to save coal, and the average amount of coal stored was only about one week. Some power plants suffered from downtime due to lack of coal. The reason is well understood: coal is market-priced, and the default is simply too low for the power plant. Zhang Yong, the policy research department of the China Coal Industry Association, shouted loudly when he was interviewed by the media: “How can coal companies provide coal below market prices?”

It is reported that the situation of power companies has caused the attention of the SASAC of the competent authorities, and the trend of price increases is in full swing.

However, recently the well-known economist Lang Xianping throws out the article "Who is ignoring the power shortage", Sword refers to the power industry in a variety of shortcomings, triggering a Japanese-language war with the CLP.

According to Lang Xianping, the five major power plants have no losses at all and rising prices are not the solution. The facts he cited include: The profitability of listed companies in the five major power companies has been rising year after year. Some of the power companies' resurgence plans have brought about huge profits from affordable coal. China's power generation and production coal consumption levels have lagged behind developed countries. However, the relevant person in charge of the China Electric Power Association refuted each article one by one. It was a lively moment for Maimang.

To be fair, disregarding the distorted coal-fired power mechanism, the management and operation of power running companies under administrative guidance lacks sufficient transparency. Specific regulations are all completed within the system, and the channels for social supervision are narrow. As for the existence of non-existent drawbacks, such as the high operating costs of certain monopolistic companies and internal spam benefits, it is not yet known. Han Xiaoping, CEO of China Energy Network, said: "Now that coal power has been marketized, but power grid companies are in the middle, thermal power companies must sell power to power grid companies, and supply and demand cannot be docked. It is necessary to establish a power market trading mechanism."

Lang Xianping even suggested that the National Development and Reform Commission, which is launching an anti-monopoly investigation against China Telecom’s China Unicom, will target the next national grid.

However, the voice of the parties concerned is that, under the current coal-fired mechanism and management system, the days of the mysterious electric power companies have been difficult. This undoubtedly created a loose environment for the next step of reform - the reform of the electricity price system in place and the clearing of the fairway for the competitive electricity market.

However, this is not an easy task. The top priority is to face the call for “more and more losses” in power companies. Will prices rise? How much will it increase? Will it affect people?

Combining the openness and transparency of the current operating cost of power companies, combined with the current difficulties of SMEs under inflationary pressures, combined with the increasing pressure of life of ordinary people, experts expect that even if the price of electricity is raised, extreme prudence and prudence must be adopted. Hearings may be held as necessary to extensively listen to the views of various stakeholders in the society. In particular, people are fully concerned about people's livelihood. Coal and electricity cannot always be the game, and the people will pay for it. After all, residents’ electricity consumption accounts for about 14% of the total.

To increase prices, it is better to draw on international advanced experience to protect the residents' normal lives and use electricity based on the ladder price - transferring the cost to as many people as possible.

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