China's Hubei energy complex is short of coal

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http://af.reuters.com/article/energyOilNews/idAFTOE6BL02D20101222

Hubei Grid Corp would cut 20 million kilowatt hours (kwh) of power to energy intensive companies and small chemical makers today, the Changjiang Times reported on Wednesday.

With falling coal stocks and rising power demand, power shortages could increase to 60 million kwh per day by the end of December, the newspaper reported.

Coal inventories at 14 power plants connected to the provincial grid fell to 1.71 million tonnes on Dec. 21 from 2.21 million tonnes at the beginning of the month, as the volume of coal burned continued to exceed the volume of coal shipped in, according to data published by the Hubei Economy and Information Technology Commission.

Power plants burned 128,300 tonnes of coal on Tuesday, higher than the 110,600 tonnes they received, the commission said on its website

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1. They're hot on waste-to-energy right now

to supplement coal & control landfills.