The National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) and the
Electricity Regulatory Commission (ERC) will jointly send an
inspection team to ensure the implementation of differential
electricity price in some regions.
The NDRC made the announcement on Wednesday.
To restrict the operation of enterprises with high energy
consumption, the government has decided to set different
electricity prices for different types of producers.
Enterprises consuming huge energy of coke and aluminum should
pay more for the same amount of electricity usage than others,
according to the governmental policy.
Some local governments, fearing that such policy would affect
economic growth, still gave the same treatment to all kinds of
enterprises to protect the high-energy-consumption industry.
The NDRC and the Electricity Regulatory Commission, therefore,
decided to send inspection teams to eight provincial areas
including Shanxi, Inner Mongolia, Henan, Hunan, Sichuan, Guizhou,
Shaanxi and Gansu.
Local authorities and departments that did not implement the
policy well will be criticized and punished, the NDRC said.
(Xinhua News Agency December 14, 2006)