China’s Electricity Output Fell 3.7 Percent in First Two Months

By Winnie Zhu

March 12 (Bloomberg) -- China’s power production fell 3.7 percent to 488.3 billion kilowatt-hours in the first two months from a year earlier, said the National Bureau of Statistics.

Power generation rose 5.9 percent to 244.9 billion kilowatt-hours in February, the bureau said in an e-mailed statement today. Coal output increased 3.6 percent to 368.9 million metric tons in the first two months. Production of the fuel climbed 16 percent to 196.6 million tons in February.

To contact the reporter on this story: Winnie Zhu in Shanghai at wzhu4@bloomberg.net