The rise of a great power: starting with military industry

Chapter 886 China Southern Power Grid! ?
After inspecting the work.

After signing the notice of the year-end party group meeting, Liu Tao took a special plane to Beijing.

As the reform is further deepened, it is also necessary to regulate the electricity market, and the above decision has been made to fully divide the electricity market.

The purpose of Liu Tao's return to Beijing this time is to persuade the relevant departments to reorganize the Southwest Power Grid into the East China Power Grid, Central China Power Grid and Southern Power Grid to form the Southern Power Grid, so as to unify the power supply and price in the whole south.

Each province will invest by contributing its own power assets, just like Yunnan and Sichuan, to first make the pie bigger and then distribute dividends later.

At the meeting, in addition to the heads of the East China Power Grid and others, there were also heads of water conservancy and hydropower from various provinces and leaders in charge of water conservancy and hydropower in each province. The conference room was full.

"In the future, the national power system will form a situation where the Southern Power Grid and the Northern Power Grid run side by side. The Northern Power Grid will mainly use thermal power, supplemented by hydropower, nuclear power, etc., to supply electricity to the north. The newly formed Southern Power Grid will mainly use hydropower, supplemented by thermal power, nuclear power, etc., to supply electricity to southern provinces, as well as to Southeast Asia and South Asia." Liu Tao has big ambitions.

In terms of the power system, the Southwest Power Grid has actually become the only dominant power grid in the world, and the annual power generation of other power grids combined is far less than that of the Southwest Power Grid.

Previously, the Central China Power Grid, East China Power Grid and Southern Power Grid had to purchase large quantities of electricity from the Southwest Power Grid.

The two sides are not on the same level in terms of technology, scale, and organization.

"If the Southern Power Grid is established with the Southwest Power Grid as the core, we will invest a lot of money in hydropower development. By 2010, our total hydropower development scale will reach 30 WM, and by 2020 it will reach 60 WM, and the utilization rate of water resources within the jurisdiction will reach 95%." Liu Tao painted a big pie, "That is to say, by 2010, the hydropower generation of the Southwest Power Grid will reach about 1.2 to 1.4 trillion kWh, and by 2020 it will reach 2.4 to 2.8 trillion kWh."

When the others heard Liu Tao's words, they were all dumbfounded.

Because the total power generation in the country is only about one trillion kWh, but Liu Tao always talks about trillions of kWh.

By 2020, the Southwest Power Grid will generate 2.4 to 2.8 trillion kilowatt-hours of hydropower annually, but the question is whether the country can use up that much electricity.

If someone else said this, someone would definitely laugh at it because it requires a huge investment.

But since these words were spoken by Liu Tao, others did not dare to laugh at him.

The giant Panshan Group is famous for its wealth that can rival a country.

A terrible record was once set: the profits and taxes paid by Panshan Group were equal to the total fiscal revenue paid by East China, South China, Central China, Southwest China, Northwest China, and North China.

Now East China and South China are begging Southwest Power Grid, hoping that it can sell more electricity to them.

If it weren't for the Southwest Power Grid, the economies of East China and South China would have suffered from lack of electricity.

"Comrade Liu Tao, are you serious? Are you joking?" The leader was obviously persuaded.

The shortage of electricity in China is now very prominent. Power outages are common in rural areas, and there may not be electricity for two days a week. Electricity is supplied to cities so that they can ensure that they have electricity for production. However, even so, many county towns have power outages from time to time, and cities always have to have power outages for two days a week.

Among all the major power grids, only the Southwest Power Grid is frantically increasing its power generation and building hydropower stations and thermal power stations. If the Southwest Power Grid did not supply large quantities of electricity to East China, South China and Central China in addition to meeting the electricity needs of the southwest region, I'm afraid there would be a widespread power shortage across the country, and leaders from all regions would have a headache.

It’s not that people don’t want to build hydropower stations and thermal power stations, but that the major power grids don’t have much money, and local governments are unwilling to pay for construction, so they all rely on central government funding.

The original plan was to integrate the major power grids into three or four power grids to enable better competition and activate the subjective initiative of the major power grids through market competition.

But now that Liu Tao has proposed this plan, it is not impossible.

Southwest Power Grid will merge East China Power Grid, Central China Power Grid and Southern Power Grid to form a new Southern Power Grid. By then, it will vigorously develop hydropower, thermal power and even nuclear power, which will inevitably ensure a rapid increase in power generation and ensure electricity supply for the entire south.

In China's current economic development pattern, the eastern part is developing better than the western part overall, and the south is far ahead of the north.

Naturally, the entire South accounts for more than three-fifths of the country's electricity consumption. Now the government is also very worried about the widespread power shortage in rural areas. After all, the country is looking at the overall situation. The South needs to develop, the North needs to develop, the East needs to develop rapidly, and the West needs to develop rapidly. It is necessary to develop cities and promote urbanization, but also to ensure the development of rural areas.

The problem of electricity supply in rural areas must be ensured.

But the current situation is that except for the Southwest Power Grid, which is actively making progress and investing in the construction of various hydropower stations, thermal power stations, and ultra-high voltage long-distance power transmission, other power grids are passively waiting for the central government to allocate funds.

Even without local subsidies, the power grid would not be able to pay salaries and would have to delay employee wages.

Everyone thinks that the power grid must be making huge profits and it is impossible for it to lose money!

But in fact it is so magical.

The electricity prices vary between provinces, between different cities in the same province, and even between different counties in the same city.

Various types of random charges are emerging one after another.

Only in the southwest region, including Sichuan, mountain cities, Yunnan, Guizhou, Guangxi and Tibet, because they are all supplied and charged by the southwest power grid, the electricity price remains relatively stable, and there is currently no shortage of electricity like in other places.

而且刘韬提到的，到2010年水电发电量1.2~1.4万亿度、2020年水电发电量2.4~2.8万亿度，也让领导很动心。

There is so much hydropower, and the number of thermal power and nuclear power must be about the same.

That means there will be no shortage of electricity across the country.

Even rural areas can be guaranteed 24-hour power supply and there will be no more power outages.

When it comes to electricity, it’s better to have excess than lack it.

The Chinese have deeply experienced the pain of shortage in recent years.

There is a power shortage everywhere, so many companies are willing to invest and set up factories in the southwest region where electricity is relatively sufficient, even though the southwest region has higher environmental protection measures.

"Of course I take it seriously. It's more real than real gold!" Liu Tao said, "If the Southwest Power Grid organizes the Southern Power Grid system, it will definitely be able to achieve what I said!"

Liu Tao is very confident in this regard.

Panshan Group already had a grand plan in this regard. Even if the Southwest Power Grid is still the Southwest Power Grid, it will not lose money but will make huge profits just by selling electricity. It is just the difference between making big profits or bloody profits.

After all, it is impossible for a pig to lose money when running the power grid.

Electricity is a necessity.

The electricity price is actually not cheap, and the quantity is large, so how is it possible to make a loss?

As for the losses of other power grids, Liu Tao knew without much thought that it was nothing more than passive governance and human greed.

Reaching out here and there will ultimately result in losses.

This kind of trick may be enough to fool others, but it can't fool him.

(End of this chapter)