These restrictions are expected to weigh on industrial activity and curtail power demand and generation further, Icra said.

Electricity consumption of manufacturing industry up 4.7% YoY in June.

It is estimated that the wind energy converter, jointly developed by DEC and China Three Gorges Corporation, can produce 40 million kWh of clean energy every year at an average wind speed of 10 meters per second.

China's major state-controlled power generating company Huaneng has announced plans to reduce its summer restocking of domestic spot coal.

The Government should build a retail power price for industrial production firms equal to households and adjust the electricity tariff to suit people’s living standards, experts have said.

China's power generation decreased in the first four months of this year, down 5 percent year-on-year, official data showed Friday.

Japan's power demand in April fell compared with a year earlier, with the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic offsetting a weather-driven demand increase.

Japan's electricity demand has slumped after a state of emergency was declared on 7 April to tackle the Covid-19 pandemic.