Night view of Hongyadong in Chongqing. Correspondent Qin Xue photo

"Unexpectedly, Hongyadong without lights is so beautiful!" At 8 o’clock on the evening of August 26th, Hongyadong Scenic Area, which is usually brightly lit, has a quiet beauty after responding to the call of the whole city to save electricity and suspending landscape lighting. The exterior wall lighting and Hongya Dicui Waterfall in the scenic spot were temporarily closed, and the public lighting in the scenic spot was reduced by three quarters.

Government agencies use natural light for lighting, turn off unnecessary lighting equipment such as corridors and corridors, and adjust the air conditioner to above 26℃. Correspondent Liu scientific research photo

Since the beginning of summer, Chongqing has suffered two rounds of large-scale continuous high-temperature weather, which has led to the rising power load, and Chongqing’s power supply is at a critical moment. Party and government organs, enterprises and institutions should save energy and use electricity to the maximum extent, make electricity available to the people, and fully protect people’s livelihood. Residents and users will practice saving electricity in every small habit of life, and respond to the call of energy conservation in the city, and the city will fight the high temperature and tide over the difficulties together!

Employees of State Grid Chongqing Shinan Power Supply Company walked into Beidi New Town Community on the South Bank to promote energy-saving and electricity use. Correspondent Gong Chao photo

Let the electricity industry enterprises cut the peak and stagger the peak production.

On August 16th, Chongqing Economic Information Commission and State Grid Chongqing Electric Power Company jointly issued the Emergency Notice on Expanding the Implementation Scope of Industrial Enterprises’ Giving Electricity to the People, and launched the first-level plan of orderly electricity use to ensure the safe use of electricity for people’s livelihood, public services and key industries, so as to give electricity to the people and go all out to keep the power grid safe.

Assemble the strength of the whole city, and a battle against high temperature, hot summer and power supply will start!

On August 26th, Tan Hongqu, the account manager of the key account class of State Grid jiangjin district Power Supply Company, walked into Chongqing Xinxiya Aluminum (Group) Co., Ltd. to check the safety of electricity consumption for the enterprise and once again publicized the policy of peak-shifting electricity consumption.

This enterprise is a scientific and technological enterprise mainly engaged in aluminum deep processing, and the whole production line needs 4000 kWh. "We must respond to the call to give electricity to the people!" Liu Bin, the relevant person in charge of the enterprise, said that the company responded positively to the call to reduce the daily electricity consumption to 100 kWh in accordance with the requirements of the Chongqing Economic Information Commission on August 17th.

"At present, electricity consumption is tight, and people’s livelihood is always the first. It is also the social responsibility that our enterprise should bear to reduce the electricity load and make electricity available to the people." On August 23, Tao Maolun, the head of Dongan Potash Fertilizer Plant in Tongnan District, responded positively to reduce the production power load of enterprises.

In response to the call of giving electricity to the people, the factory started to produce its own 1000 kW diesel generator, reducing the power load by 1200 kW, which can supply electricity to more than 300 households.

As of August 26th, there were 14,605 enterprises in the city implementing the first-level plan of orderly electricity consumption, so as to maximize electricity supply to the people.

"Festival" tries its best to actively reduce the load of government agencies and commercial enterprises.

On August 17th, the directly under the authority Working Committee of Chongqing Municipal Committee and the Municipal Bureau of Organs and Affairs jointly issued the Notice on Taking the Lead in Saving Electricity, requiring all municipal departments to take the lead in saving electricity as a key task at present, formulate practical and effective measures to save electricity, and fully cope with the peak electricity consumption.

At the same time, in order to alleviate the pressure of electricity consumption, all parts of Chongqing have also moderately regulated commercial electricity consumption and organized 1308 commercial users to save electricity. A number of shopping malls and office buildings in Chongqing issued measures to limit electricity, adjust business hours, and close some elevators and lighting.

"The mall has closed the escalator, and the air conditioner is not as cool as before, but we all support the mall to respond to energy-saving measures, which has little impact on shopping." At 17: 00 on August 25, in the shopping mall after the adjustment of business hours in Longhu Times Street, citizens came into the market one after another.

Longhu Times Tianjie adopts some energy-saving measures, such as adjusting business hours, reducing unnecessary lighting, closing some escalators and raising air conditioning temperature. On August 25th, the power consumption of Tianjie in Longhu Times was 116,800 kWh, which was 70,500 kW less than that on August 15th, with a saving rate of 37.63%, and the power saving effect was obvious.

Power grid employees of State Grid Bishan Power Supply Company explain the recent power supply and demand situation and power policy for enterprises. Correspondent Jiang Pei photo

Strengthen publicity and advocate the whole society to save electricity.

The load of Chongqing power grid is rising rapidly, and the demand for air conditioning cooling load is strong and continues to be high, accounting for more than 50% of the city’s load demand, an increase of 30.9% over last year. There are now more than 12.04 million households in Chongqing. If every household saves one kilowatt-hour every day, it will save more than 12 million kilowatt-hours a day. It is very important to mobilize residents to save every kilowatt-hour with practical actions.

The Chongqing Municipal Development and Reform Commission and State Grid Chongqing Electric Power have stepped up the promotion of energy conservation into the community, and extensively carried out the theme publicity activities of "energy conservation is the lowest carbon energy, and electricity conservation is the most economical electricity", vigorously advocated "electricity conservation starts with me" and appealed to the residents to save electricity.

Under the high temperature, a batch of propaganda teams in Chongqing went into individual merchants, communities and residential customers to publicize the knowledge of saving electricity in a wide range and at close range.

"Aunt Luo, remember to turn off the lights, turn off the appliances that are not often used to save electricity, and start from the things around you!" On August 22nd, in Hengrong Times Community, Rongchang District, employees of State Grid Yongchuan Power Supply Company were publicizing the knowledge of energy conservation to the residents coming and going, creating a good atmosphere of "saving electricity, starting from me". According to the calculation, after the energy-saving publicity was carried out, the electricity consumption of the community in the four days from August 22 to 25 was reduced by 1140 kWh compared with the previous four days.

As of August 26th, State Grid Chongqing Electric Power has mobilized all forces to post initiatives in 303 business halls, 883 community WeChat groups and 632 community and property management bulletin boards. Entering 147 communities, we carried out 1698 times of publicity on electricity conservation, distributed 58,400 brochures and leaflets, and made great efforts to create an atmosphere of electricity conservation in the whole society.