Electricity Demand in March 2005 (Bulletin)
2005/4/20
FEPC
[Demand Overview (Total Across the 10 Power Companies)]
Total demand in March was up 4.5% to 73.2 billion kWh across the 10 companies.
Demand Excluding Extra High Voltage Demand
Commercial and lighting demand posted increases of 3.0% and 8.9% respectively. The increases were due to increased demand for heating caused by lower temperatures in the latter parts of February and March.
Note: Year-on-year changes in commercial power calculated by adjusting figures for the same period one year ago to match 2004 demand categories (for reference only).
Demand Volume & Change by Month & Use
(Units: mkWh, %) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Note: | |
1. | Figures in "Large Industry" indicate itemized breakdown of included subtotals. |
2. | Sum of individual entries may not match reported totals exactly due to rounding. |
3. | Beginning April 2004, demand categories have been changed to reflect deregulation of over-500kW electricity market. |
4. | Figures in parentheses adjusted to match 2004 demand categories (for reference only). |
(Reference) Large Industrial Demand
Large industrial user demand in March was up for the first time in 2 months increasing by 1.7%. The rise was due to firm performance in all sectors except the textiles and the ceramics sectors. Performance in the chemicals sector was particularly good.
(Reference)
Demand Volume & Change by Month & Large Industry Sector
(Units: mkWh, %) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
(Reference)
Large Industry Demand Change by Month & Term
(Units: %) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
March 2005 Lighting & Power Demand by Co. & Use
(Units: mkWh, %) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|