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SZ faces energy crisis
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Song Yingwen
UTILITY officials in Shenzhen warn that our city faces a potential energy crisis. To save power, several measures, including the use of flexible working hours and providing interest-free loans to purchase energy-efficient machinery, will be introduced to encourage Shenzheners to save electricity.
According to statistics released at a meeting held yesterday to discuss the city's electricity supply, the demand for power in the first quarter of 2001 increased by 20 per cent as compared with the same period last year. The demand for electricity for industrial production and household use has been growing most rapidly.
The existing power plants and power grid are already taxed to the limit. Worse still, soaring oil prices have forced some power plants to operate below capacity.
"We need to buy more electricity from the Guangdong provincial power grid and even Hong Kong to ensure enough power for daily use," said Chen Guangsheng, head of the Shenzhen Electricity Power Supply Bureau.
To cope with the situation, some old power plants that have been closed for years will be taken out of mothballs and fired up again. At the same time, enterprises, as the biggest electricity consumers, will receive advice on how to save electricity.
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