NEA: China's power use tops 1 trillion kWh for 2nd month this year in August

China's total electricity consumption reached 1,033.2 billion kilowatt-hours (kWh) in August, up 1.7% on the year and above 1 trillion kWh for a second straight month, the National Energy Administration (NEA) said on September 20.

July 2025 saw China's monthly electricity consumption exceed the 1-trillion-kWh mark for the first time, a feat unmatched anywhere else in the world. Horizontally, 1 trillion kWh is equivalent to Japan's total annual electricity consumption, or that of the ASEAN countries combined. Vertically, compared with July 2015, when monthly