It is unlikely that industrial and commercial electricity prices will be raised this year. According to the official website of the National Development and Reform Commission, the National Development and Reform Commission recently issued the "Provincial Power Grid Transmission a

It is unlikely that industrial and commercial electricity prices will increase this year.

According to the official website of the National Development and Reform Commission, the National Development and Reform Commission recently issued the "Provincial Power Grid Transmission and Distribution Price Pricing Methods (Trial)". The relevant person in charge of the National Development and Reform Commission stated in response to a reporter's question that on January 1, 2017, the national coal power benchmark on-grid electricity price will not be set. Adjustment.

The above-mentioned person in charge said that with the approval of the State Council, the National Development and Reform Commission improved the coal and electricity price linkage mechanism at the end of 2015. The improved coal and electricity price linkage mechanism stipulates that the benchmark on-grid electricity price of coal and electricity shall be calculated based on the China Thermal Coal Price Index announced to the public and the standard coal consumption of coal and electricity enterprises in the previous year. The price of thermal coal in each period is determined based on the average price of thermal coal from November of the previous year to October of the current year. The average national thermal coal price index in this issue is 347.5 yuan per ton, and the annual standard coal consumption for power supply of coal-fired power plants announced by the China Electricity Council is 319 grams per kilowatt-hour.

In the previous year, the price of thermal coal rose sharply month-on-month.

National Bureau of Statistics figures show that in mid-November 2016, Qinhuangdao Port coal prices 4 ended their continuous upward trend since May and began to fall. As of December 5, 2016, the closing price of 5,500 kcal coal was 667 yuan per ton, a decrease of 33 yuan from November 7, 2016; the closing price of 5,000 kcal coal was 608 yuan per ton, a decrease of 33 yuan from November 7, 2016. A decrease of 22 yuan; the closing price of 4,500 kcal coal was 538 yuan per ton, a decrease of 17 yuan from November 7, 2016. However, compared with the same period in 2015, the price of 5,500 kcal thermal coal increased by about 80%.

The National Development and Reform Commission pointed out in response to reporters' questions that under the current situation, the benchmark on-grid electricity price of coal power will not be adjusted, which is objectively conducive to stabilizing market expectations, conducive to stabilizing energy costs in the real economy, and conducive to promoting the supply-side structural reform of the coal power industry. reform. The next step will be to closely track the price trend of thermal coal and continue to take measures such as releasing advanced production capacity, allocating railway transportation capacity, promoting the signing of long-term agreements, and stabilizing market expectations, so as to promote the reasonable return of thermal coal prices as soon as possible and promote the stable and healthy development of the coal-fired power generation industry.

According to the 21st Century Business Herald, since 2015, through comprehensive policies such as the reform of electricity transmission and distribution prices, the implementation of coal and electricity price linkage, and the promotion of market-based electricity transactions, electricity costs have been reduced by more than 180 billion yuan.

In the past two years, due to the continuous decline in coal prices, the National Development and Reform Commission has continuously lowered the on-grid electricity price and industrial and commercial sales electricity price . From 2004 to 2011, it raised the on-grid electricity price for coal-fired units seven times in a row, and increased the industrial and commercial sales electricity price accordingly.

Since 2013, the price of thermal coal has continued to fall, and the on-grid electricity price has been reduced four times in a row, by a total of 7.44 cents per kilowatt hour. Among them, on April 20, 2015 and January 1, 2016, the industrial and commercial sales electricity price and the general industrial and commercial sales electricity price were also lowered accordingly, by 1.8 cents and 3 cents per kilowatt-hour respectively. The two price adjustments reduced corporate electricity expenditures by about 90 billion.

According to our understanding, the current coal-power linkage mainly involves on-grid electricity prices and industrial and commercial electricity prices. Large electricity-consuming enterprises can directly negotiate prices with power generators. However, residential electricity consumption does not involve coal-electricity linkage.

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