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皇冠体育app's power consumption grows 40 pct in Jan

(Xinhua)
Updated: 2010-02-12 11:43
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BEIJING: 皇冠体育app's electricity consumption in January 2010 grew 40.14 percent year on year to 353.1 billion kilowatt-hours (kWhs), the National Energy Administration (NEA) said in a statement on its website Friday.

The electricity consumption volume was 2.7 percent higher than that in December 2009, said the NEA.

Consumption in the primary industry sector topped 7 billion kWhs last month, up 23.5 percent year on year.

Secondary industry consumption rose 45.99 percent to 262.4 billion kWhs and the tertiary sector demand was up 25.61 percent to 39.8 billion kWhs.

Residential power use rose 25.9 percent to 44 billion kWhs, according to the statement.