New record: national Energy Group's power generation reached 1200 billion kilowatt-hours for the first time in August.

CTOnews.com, August 31, according to the official website of the National Energy Group, in August, the daily power generation of the State Energy Group exceeded 4 billion kilowatt-hours for the first time for four consecutive days, the monthly power generation reached the level of 1200 billion kilowatt-hours for the first time in history, and the coal supply of thermal power exceeded 50 million tons.

According to the National Energy Group, as of August 29, the average operating rate of thermal power units was 89.7%, an increase of 5.3 percentage points over the same period. The group's monthly thermal power generation reached 97.34 billion kilowatt hours, an increase of 17.2% over the same period last year.

CTOnews.com learned that according to the recent monitoring and evaluation of the National Climate Center, taking into account the average intensity, scope of influence and duration of high temperature heat wave events, the comprehensive intensity of regional high temperature events since June 13 this year has reached the strongest since 1961.