The electricity price increase bill is here!
Some enterprises in Xiaoshan received electricity price adjustment notices
Tianjin issued a draft for comments, and peak electricity prices are planned to increase by 60%
Recently, the Tianjin Municipal Development and Reform Commission issued the “Notice on Matters Related to Peak and Valley Time-of-Use Electricity Pricing Policies (Draft for Comments)” ” and publicly solicit opinions from the public. The “Notice” stipulates that the floating ratio of electricity prices during peak and valley periods in Tianjin’s industrial and commercial periods will be adjusted to 4:1, that is, the peak electricity price will increase by 60% based on the electricity price during normal periods, and the low valley electricity price will decrease by 60% based on the electricity price during normal periods. The peak electricity price will be adjusted to 4:1. Peak electricity prices will increase by 20%. The peak-valley time-of-use price difference for agricultural electricity and the peak-valley price policy for residents switching from coal to electric heating will not be adjusted for the time being.
Rising electricity prices have also increased costs
The rise in electricity prices directly increases the cost of weaving production, and corporate profits will be affected even more.
In fact, Jiangsu and Zhejiang are areas with scarce electricity resources. The government often improves the situation through measures such as increasing electricity prices, limiting electricity consumption, and off-peak electricity consumption. Local electricity usage. As a result, the monthly electricity bills of many large and medium-sized weaving companies will be more than 10,000 yuan, and the increase in electricity bills for companies with high energy-consuming equipment such as texturing will be even greater. In particular, the profit growth rate of the textile industry has slowed down in recent years, and some sub-sectors have even experienced profit shrinkage, especially due to the recent huge cost pressures due to raw materials, freight, exchange rates and other factors. The rise in electricity prices directly increases the production costs of weaving enterprises, and the production of enterprises is further affected.
According to information, in textile factories, electricity costs are a very high cost expenditure after raw materials. Especially for enterprises with a relatively high degree of automation, the cost of electricity is already higher than the labor remuneration expenditure. Taking a textile company with 840 water-jet and air-jet looms and an annual output of 70 million meters as an example, the annual electricity bill is about 4-5 million yuan, and the company’s labor expenses are also 3-4 million yuan.
Let’s take a look at the important printing and dyeing companies in the textile industry chain: Taking a factory with annual sales of 200 million yuan as an example, the annual electricity bill is 700- 8 million yuan, while the expenditure on worker wages is also 7-8 million yuan. The annual consumption of dyes and coatings, the largest component of cost expenditure, is only about 20 million yuan.
In chemical fiber plants, electricity is a very high cost expenditure after raw materials. Especially for enterprises with a relatively high degree of automation, the cost of electricity is already higher than the labor remuneration expenditure.
At the same time, although there are many textile companies gathered in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, the local government still considers allocating electricity to other industries first when the total power is insufficient. , taking the Xingxing area of Huzhou Chang as an example, local textile companies are cut off from power every year. This has a particularly prominent impact on weaving companies. The rise in electricity prices not only increases corporate costs, but corporate production will also be restricted by off-peak electricity consumption.
The market is already facing the pressure of rising inventories in the off-season. Coupled with unpredictable environmental protection, power restrictions, and production shutdowns, Undoubtedly, it will have a great impact on the normal production and order delivery deadlines of textile enterprises, which is equivalent to adding insult to injury for textile bosses! It also makes textile companies face difficulties in receiving orders. A textile boss said bluntly: “When I received the order, I still had some profit. When I got home and calculated the latest costs, I found that the profit had been increased and we had to lose money on production!”
Therefore, in such an environment, textile people must recognize their own position and consciously limit inventory, rather than blindly produce and turn all funds into inventory to avoid falling into the huge competitive pressure. A difficult situation.
Should electricity prices for high-energy-consuming enterprises increase?
The most direct driving factor for this increase in electricity prices is the shortage of electricity. One of the reasons is that the surge in global commodity prices has greatly increased the energy demand of related high-energy-consuming enterprises that produce these products. , and transmits the pressure upward to coal, causing coal prices to rise sharply and power plants to suffer losses, thereby exacerbating the power shortage.
On another level, electricity price reform is conducive to forcing enterprises to transform and upgrade and promote industry structural adjustment. Judging from the actual situation, some places still have a strong dependence on high-energy-consuming and high-emission industries. Not long ago, the Central Ecological and Environmental Protection Inspectorate discovered that the energy demand of the “two high” projects planned to be launched in some places was several times the new energy consumption during the “14th Five-Year Plan” period. In some places, energy conservation review and environmental impact assessment procedures were not completed, and they were launched in violation of regulations. Build before approval, and some places still have many preferential policies for “two high” projects.
This situation was not uncommon in the past. The heavy and chemical industry characterized by high energy consumption has made great contributions in the early stage of my country’s economic development, but it has also caused some places to form thinking inertia and path dependence. Once the market improves, they will pile on high energy consumption projects. This is also the key to my country’s economic development. The underlying reasons for overcapacity have appeared many times. The rebound in commodities is due to multiple reasons such as global currency over-issuance and insufficient foreign production capacity. It is not a fundamental recovery of demand. Once exports fall, a new round of overcapacity risks may arise.�, need to be vigilant.
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