China March industrial power consumption down 1.4pc on year

BEIJING: China's industrial power consumption fell 1.4 percent in March from a year earlier to 353.4 billion kilowatt hours (kWh), data from the National Energy Administration (NEA) showed on Friday.

Total power consumption rose 3.6 percent last month from a year ago to 532.5 billion kWh, and reached 1.59 trillion kWh in January-March, up 9.8 percent.

China's total installed generation capacity reached 1,706.88 gigawatts at the end of March, according to NEA.

Below is a table giving a breakdown of China's power consumption as well as other data for March and the Jan-March period.