Russia's Inter RAO says China asked it to boost electricity supply (updated)

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29/09/2021 19:40

(Adds comments by Inter RAO, Russian energy ministry, details)
    MOSCOW, Sept 29 (Reuters) - Russian state energy company
Inter RAO  IRAO.MM  said on Wednesday it had received a request
from China to increase electricity supplies as the world's No.2
economy grappled with power cuts that hit industrial output.
    China has already demanded that railway companies and local
authorities raise their game in shipping vital coal supplies to
utilities.  urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL4N2QV1O5. 
    China is facing an electricity deficit in northern provinces
and asked Russia to boost exports to those regions, a spokesman
of Inter RAO said.
    Inter RAO, Russia's monopoly for electricity exports, was
considering a significant increase in electricity supply, the
spokesman said, providing no further details.
    Inter RAO reduced electricity exports to China by 1.3% to
3.06 billion kilowatt-hours last year and to 1.25 billion
kilowatt-hours in the first half of this year, a 7.2%
year-on-year decline.
    The Russia-China transmission lines are capable of
delivering up to 7 billion kilowatt-hours of electrical power
per year.
    The governor of China's Jilin province had earlier called
for higher coal imports from Russia, Mongolia and Indonesia.
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    The Russian energy ministry said it has not received any
requests from China to increase coal exports.

 (Reporting by Anastasia Lyrchikova; writing by Alexander
Marrow; editing by Andrey Ostroukh and Grant McCool)
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