On the 7th, the China Electricity Council (hereinafter referred to as the China Electricity Council) released the "China Electricity Industry Annual Development Report 2023". According to Hao Yingjie, secretary-general of the China Electricity Council, the degree of marketization of electricity will be further improved. In 2022, the market transaction electricity will account for 60.8% of the electricity consumption of the whole society
In 2022, coal-fired power units are planned to be fully liberalized, and industrial and commercial users will all enter the market by purchasing electricity directly from the market or purchasing electricity through the power grid company, which will drive the rapid expansion of the power market transaction scale. The electricity traded in the market was 5,254.3 billion kwh, an increase of 39.0% over the previous year, accounting for 60.8% of the electricity consumption of the whole society, an increase of 15.4 percentage points over the previous year. Among them, the total amount of electricity traded in the provincial market was 4,218.1 billion kwh, an increase of 37.1% over the previous year; the total amount of electricity traded in the inter-provincial market (medium and long-term and spot) was 1,036.2 billion kwh, an increase of 47.5% over the previous year; the national coal-fired power generation The average transaction price of the unit market reached 0.449 yuan/kWh, which was about 18.3% higher than the national average benchmark electricity price. By the end of 2022, the number of market entities registered with power trading institutions will be 610,000, an increase of 30.6% over the previous year.