On April 27, the National Energy Administration held a regular press conference to announce the energy situation and the development of renewable energy in the first quarter of 2023. Dong Wancheng, deputy director of the Development Planning Department of the National Energy Administration, said at the press conference that since the beginning of this year, the country's energy consumption has increased slightly, and energy supply and demand are generally stable.
"Energy consumption continues to rise." Among them, the year-on-year growth rate of natural gas and refined oil consumption has rebounded significantly since February; the increase in industrial energy demand has driven the steady growth of coal consumption.
From the perspective of energy supply security, the output of raw coal, crude oil and natural gas in the first quarter increased by 5.5%, 2.0% and 4.5% respectively year-on-year.
"To ensure domestic energy demand, my country's energy imports increased in the first quarter." Among them, coal imports increased by 96.1% year-on-year; crude oil imports increased by 6.7% year-on-year; natural gas imports decreased by 3.6% year-on-year, of which the first two months were It was down 9.4% after a year-on-year increase of 11.6% in March.