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Cortes de energia 'sem precedentes' na China atingem

residências e fábricas
O nordeste da China está passando por cortes de energia devido à escassez de carvão
e ao endurecimento dos padrões de emissões.

A China pretende atingir o pico de emissões antes de 2030 e a neutralidade de carbono até 2060 [Arquivo:
Olivia Zhang / AP]

28 de setembro de 2021

Quedas de energia no nordeste da China deixaram milhões de casas na escu-

ridão, provocaram o fechamento de fábricas e ameaçaram interromper o
abastecimento de água em pelo menos uma província.

O tablóide Global Times disse na terça-feira que os cortes “inesperados” e

“sem precedentes” de eletricidade nas províncias de Jilin Liaoning e
sem precedentes de eletricidade nas províncias de Jilin, Liaoning e
Heilongjiang foram causados ​pelo racionamento de energia durante os horá-
rios de pico.

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O racionamento começou na quinta-feira em meio à escassez de carvão e

ocorreu sem aviso prévio, disse o tablóide do Partido Comunista, acrescen-
tando que a falta de energia gerou indignação pública e desligou semáforos e
cobertura de telefonia móvel 3G em algumas áreas.

Uma empresa de serviços públicos em Jilin também alertou que a falta de

energia pode interromper o fornecimento de água a qualquer momento, en-
quanto a emissora estatal CCTV disse que uma fábrica em Liaoning teve que
levar 23 trabalhadores ao hospital devido ao envenenamento por monóxido
de carbono quando os ventiladores pararam repentinamente durante um
blecaute.

“Cortes de energia oito vezes por dia, quatro dias seguidos ... Estou sem pala-
vras”, escreveu um usuário frustrado de Liaoning no Weibo, um site de mi-
croblog chinês.

Outro reclamou que os shoppings fechavam cedo e uma loja de conveniência

estava à luz de velas.

“É como viver na Coreia do Norte”, escreveram eles.

Uma usina a carvão pode ser vista atrás de uma fábrica na Região Autônoma da Mongólia Interior da China
[Arquivo: David Gray / Reuters]

Cortes de energia ameaçam crescimento

The lack of electricity has also affected industrial production in the world’s
second-largest economy, halting operations at factories, including some
supplying Apple and Tesla.

Apple supplier Unimicron Technology said factories in two regions were told
to stop production from midday Sunday through Thursday, in filings with the
Taiwan stock exchange on Monday.

Dozens of other companies, including a parts supplier to Tesla, were also told
to halt production this week, according to stock exchange filings.

Meanwhile, Goldman Sachs estimated that as much as 44 percent of China’s

industrial activity has been affected by power shortages, potentially causing a
1-percentage-point decline in annualised GDP growth in the third quarter,
and a 2-percentage-point drop from October to December.

It said in a note published on Tuesday that it was cutting its 2021 GDP growth
forecast for China to 7.8 percent, from the previous 8.2 percent.

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Nearly 60 percent of the Chinese economy is powered by coal, and the

electricity crunch has taken hold amid disruptions to coal supplies due to the
pandemic as well as a trade tiff with Australia.

The coal shortages, toughening greenhouse gas emissions standards and

strong demand from industry have pushed coal prices to record highs in
China.
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Adam Ni, an analyst at China Neican, a think-tank, said local authorities had
to resort to rationing because electricity prices remain capped in China.

“So with rising input prices but fixed output prices, generating electricity has
become less profitable – it may even become a loss-making venture,” he said
in a newsletter.

“Since raising electricity prices may lead to more social discontent than ratio-
ning electricity, especially among households, the authorities have opted to
restrict demand for electricity through rationing.”

The other reason for the restrictions is authorities’ desire to meet provincial
targets for reductions in energy consumption, Ni added, noting that China
aims to hit peak emissions before 2030 and carbon neutrality by 2060.

‘No energy crisis’

The Global Times said while the power cuts have raised concerns over an
energy crisis in China industry insiders were confident that “China’s energy
energy crisis in China, industry insiders were confident that China s energy
supply capacity is so far adequate for meeting demand and that China has no
energy crisis”.

The China Electricity Council, which represents the country’s power suppli-
ers, said in a note on Monday that coal-fired power companies were now “ex-
panding their procurement channels at any cost” in order to guarantee winter
heat and electricity supplies.

It said China needed to increase the production and supply of coal while gua-
ranteeing safety and environmental protection. More medium- and long-term
contracts needed to be signed to raise power plant inventories ahead of
winter.

But coal traders noted finding new import sources may be easier said than
done.

“Russia has to first meet demand from Europe, Japan and South Korea,” one
northeast China-based trader told the Reuters news agency. “Indonesia’s ex-
port shipments have been curbed by rainy weather the last couple of months
and Mongolia’s exports, mostly by trucks, are small.”
Electricity transmission towers are pictured near Beijing’s Central Business District [Tingshu Wang/ Reuters]

Andy Mok, a senior research fellow at the Centre for China and Globalisation,
described the outages as a “short-term cyclical problem” and said he expected
the Chinese government to step in to fix the issue.

“In the northeast of China it can get bitterly cold and as winter comes on, en-
suring adequate heat and electricity for the people there is a top priority,” he
told Al Jazeera.

“If we look at the COVID-19 pandemic, I think we can glean some insights
into how things might proceed, in that what China has done is to put human
life first. And of course, this has brought some economic cost and some incon-
venience. But this shows the priorities of the government,” he said.

“And we see something similar here – the priority is making sure that people
are able to stay safe, to stay warm and then to mitigate as much as possible
the short term disruptions.”
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