Introduction
However, after subsequent technological follow-up and changes in level improvement, electricity prices in rural areas have finally come down. Rural friends no longer need to worry about electricity problems. But now there is news that domestic electricity prices may be lowered. Ushering in a new round of increases, residents say 0.45 yuan per kilowatt hour is completely unaffordable. But are China's electricity prices really that expensive?
In fact, whether the price of electricity is expensive or not is relative. For ordinary people, the standard for charging electricity bills is not high, but for the majority of businesses, the monthly electricity bill expenditure is indeed not a small number.
In the early years, rural areas in the western region were restricted by the development of traffic conditions, which led to higher electricity costs in rural areas. At that time, rural people in the western region also paid more for electricity than in cities. In today's society, electricity bills have become an essential expenditure item in our lives. In order to save electricity bills, many rural villagers dare not use electrical appliances at all, rarely watch TV, and are even reluctant to turn on the lights at night.
When the country realized that electricity bills had caused cost problems for rural people in the western region, since 1998, the country has made relevant rectification measures so that most people in rural areas can enjoy the same benefits as urban people. of low-priced electricity.
However, considering the burden brought by the implementation of the low-price electricity policy to the national finance, the country subsequently made adjustments again and decided to launch a tiered electricity charging model. The charging standard is mainly set based on the amount of electricity consumed. The more electricity consumed, the unit price The higher it is, the lower it is on the contrary. Generally speaking, the tiered electricity charges are divided into three levels. The unit price of electricity is 0.48 yuan per kilowatt-hour for less than 230 kilowatt-hours. The unit price for electricity exceeding 230 kilowatt-hours and not exceeding 395 kilowatt-hours is 0.55 yuan per kilowatt-hour. The unit price for electricity exceeding 395 kilowatt-hours is 0.8 yuan per kilowatt-hour.
In fact, this tiered charging model among countries is firstly to make up for the large-scale losses caused by low-priced electricity to the finance, and secondly, it is to hope that everyone can cultivate the awareness of saving electricity.
After all, there was a waste of electricity in many areas before this. In 2020, the total domestic electricity consumption was 7.511 billion kilowatt-hours, and residential electricity consumption was 10.949 billion kilowatt-hours, an increase compared with the previous year. It increased by 6.9%, and this data also fully increased the rate of increase in our official residential electricity consumption. In fact, the reason why people use electricity on such a large scale is because the electricity charges are not high. Similarly, this is also because the domestic electricity charges are lower than the cost of power supply.
Recently, relevant national departments have made new reforms to the residential electricity price system. Among them, it is mentioned that residential electricity subsidies have caused generally high electricity prices in industrial and commercial departments. Since my country's current residential pricing is lower than the cost of power supply, in the future, relevant departments The system for collecting electricity prices for residents will be improved to make the electricity prices for residents consistent with the cost of power supply. Netizens speculate that the meaning of this policy is that the country will adjust the price of electricity for residents and reduce the price of industrial and commercial electricity.
It is precisely because of the news that related power stocks in the capital market also experienced a large-scale rise, even reaching the daily limit. In fact, there have been constant complaints about domestic electricity prices being too high over the years. However, if we look at the international community and compare it with countries such as the United States and Japan, China's electricity prices have always remained at around 0.54 yuan, which is already considered low.
It is understood that the real-time electricity wholesale price in the United States has risen to 11,000 US dollars per megawatt, which is 0.775 yuan when converted into RMB. The average price in Japan has also recently increased due to economic development needs, and the electricity price has also increased. Now Japan The electricity price is 246.8 yen per kilowatt hour.
However, it is not fair to simply compare the unit price of electricity. After all, we also need to consider the income level of Chinese people and the gap between these countries. Statistics show that the income level of Chinese residents is only 1/6 of that of the United States, so this is also As a result, Chinese residents cannot be as free and unrestrained as those Americans when consuming.So looking at China’s domestic electricity bill, is the unit price of 0.54 yuan really expensive?
On the surface, the number of wealthy people in China is constantly increasing, but for most ordinary people, everyone can still feel the pressure to survive brought by the increase in living costs. As Cao Dewang said, among China’s 1.4 billion people, the real consumption Only 200 million people have the ability.
Conclusion
And it is understood that the military and civilian electricity price is about 1.5 times the on-grid electricity price, and the industrial and commercial electricity price is more than twice the on-grid electricity price. As the relevant departments have said, the price of electricity for Chinese residents is actually lower than the cost of power supply. At this stage, some people still feel that the unit price of electricity is too high, which may be related to the high cost of power supply.
