By the end of June, Gansu delivered 7.705 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity this year, up 5.8 percent year on year, while the growth rate of social electricity consumption in Gansu was -9.19 percent in the same period. The shortage of electricity market within Gansu province forces the power enterprises in Gansu province to seek electricity market outside the province. Gansu province with surplus power actively explores and tries in the construction of market mechanism.
When the national economic situation has not yet recovered and stabilized, the central and eastern provinces have weak demand for electricity, so it is difficult to carry out trans-regional and trans-provincial electricity transactions. Gansu Electric Power Trading Center Co., Ltd. pays close attention to the electricity demand outside the province, grabs the opportunity of external power transmission, and actively expands the transaction of temporary electricity transmission. At the same time, it actively cooperates with Gansu Provincial Industry and Information Technology Commission and Provincial Energy Bureau to jointly explore the external power supply market, and connects with the central and eastern regions on the relevant matters of external power supply. On this basis, Gansu Electric Power Trading Center Co., Ltd. encourages and cooperates with Longyuan, Huadian, China Power International to seek new energy cross-provincial alternative thermal power trading.
In the first half of the year, Gansu sent 7.705 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity to central China, Shandong, Qinghai and Tibet, completing 67.59 percent of the annual delivery plan.
The ratio of installed capacity to electricity load in Gansu is about 4∶1, and the power market is seriously overloaded. Especially in the season when hydropower, wind power, photovoltaic and other new energy sources are in full flow, the start-up of thermal power is seriously insufficient. At present, the installed capacity of the centralized thermal power units in Gansu power grid is 16.6772 million kilowatts, and the current start-up capacity is 6.06 million kilowatts, accounting for 36.35% of the total installed capacity of thermal power.
The market is the most effective means of allocating resources. In order to solve the excess power priorities in gansu province electric power company actively promote electric power reform work in gansu, a positive innovation trading patterns, increasing marketization of electric power trade share, scale out reached new highs, direct trading electricity proportion in the country's first in 2015, the first implementation of spanned across the province new energy instead of thermal power generation, We have further expanded the space for new energy consumption.
