Power consumption up 12.2% in first 7 months

Updated: 2011-08-14 11:38

(Xinhua)

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BEIJING - China's National Energy Administration (NEA) announced Sunday that the country's total electric power consumption from January to July rose 12.2 percent from a year earlier to 2.69 trillion kilowatt-hours (kwh).

In July alone, power consumption was up 11.8 percent year-on-year to 434.9 billion kwh, according to the NEA.