Electricity generator takes steps to ensure full supply

As temperatures continue to fall in Beijing, the capital's maximum power load had reached more than 17.8 million kilowatts by Monday evening, a winter record, according to State Grid Beijing Electric Power Co.

"The robust rise in the power load this winter is attributable to rising demand for electricity after Beijing converted to electricity from coal-fired heating," said Zhou Yunbin, head of the company's operations center.

State Grid estimates that the city's maximum power load during the heating season - Nov 15 to March 15 - will rise by 10.6 percent year-on-year, and expects the power load for heating to account for about 40 percent of the total.