The Wuhan Economic & Technological Development Zone (WHDZ) -- located in Wuhan city in Central China’s Hubei province -- is to develop nine transformer substations within three years, according to a news conference held in the WHDZ on June 10.
WHDZ officials said at the conference that by 2022 the zone will be well on its way to building a world-class urban power grid and the existing power supply reliability of the central urban area will be greatly improved.
The WHDZ Power Supply Company predicts that the highest load of zone’s power grid will reach 680,000 kilowatts this year, up 1.04 percent year-on-year.
Although the power consumption load continues to increase, the average annual power outage time for users in the WHDZ has dropped from 2.35 hours per household in 2018 to 2.02 hours per household in 2019, a drop of more than 14.04 percent.
Currently, construction of two substations has started and another two substations start construction later this year.
Officials said the remaining five substations are expected to be completed within three years.
