Huaihua, Hunan (Platts)--14Nov2012/240 am EST/740 GMT

China consumed 399.8 billion kWh of electricity in October, up 6.1% year on year, according to figures released by the National Energy Administration Wednesday.

Of the total, electricity consumption by the industrial sector was 295.7 billion kWh, up 5.9% year on year.

Over January-October, China consumed 4.088 trillion kWh of electricity, up 4.9% year on year, the data said. Of this, industrial electricity consumption accounted for 2.953 trillion kWh, up 3.2% year on year.

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In the first 10 months of the year, the working hours of China's coal-fired power units totaled 4,084, down 296 hours or 6.8% year on year. The working hours of hydropower units totaled 3,114, up 488 hours or 18.6%.

At the end of October, the combined design capacity of China's power units -- each with a design power generation capacity of at least 6 MW -- rose 8.4% year on year to 1,068,500 MW. Of this, power generation from coal-fired units was 790,790 MW, up 6.8% year on year, from hydropower units 206,320 MW,up 6.9%, and from nuclear units 12,570 MW, up 5.6% year on year.

--Reggie Le, newsdesk@platts.com --Edited by Haripriya Banerjee, haripriya_banerjee@platts.com

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