{"id":164234,"date":"2025-09-23T19:55:20","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T19:55:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/164234\/"},"modified":"2025-09-23T19:55:20","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T19:55:20","slug":"chinas-power-use-growth-slows-in-august-with-cooler-weather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/164234\/","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s Power Use Growth Slows in August With Cooler Weather"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">China\u2019s power demand growth slowed in August as scorching summer heat finally eased, according to data released by the National Energy Administration. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Electricity consumption <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nea.gov.cn\/20250923\/0ba16226b15041c798deaf8e9fa253f9\/c.html\" title=\"statement\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">rose 5%<\/a> on a yearly basis, compared with 8.6% in July and 5.4% in June. Total use was about 1 trillion kilowatt-hours, slightly below the record set in July. That means China consumed more power in each of the last two months than Japan did in all of 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"China\u2019s power demand growth slowed in August as scorching summer heat finally eased, according to data released by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":164235,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[64,2347,63,99,512,182,164,11214,3786,3262,108194,941,18460,171,5216],"class_list":["post-164234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-au","tag-august","tag-australia","tag-business","tag-china","tag-economic-growth","tag-economy","tag-electric-vehicles","tag-government","tag-green","tag-greener-living","tag-japan","tag-july-sarl-caen","tag-markets","tag-retail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164234\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/164235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}