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Hope of cleaner skies as Beijing residents switch from coal to electricity

The brick walls are grey, the sky is leaden, the alley is choked with dust and rubble as workmen fill in a long channel running along Tanggong Hutong, in the heart of old Beijing (Jane Macartney writes). The men have just finished laying an electricity... ...full story at Times Online

from Times Online on Fri, Oct 23 2009

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27 Jun 09		Sweltering weather drives Beijing electricity use to record high » People's Daily Electricity consumption in Beijing set a record Friday as the city sweltered. The power grid reported a peak 12.56 million kilowatts of electricity consumption as of 4:06 p.m., the highest in history, said Tang Ruhai, a spokesman with the Beijing...
05 Jul 08		Electricity demand sets a record in sweltering Beijing » People's Daily Electricity demand in Beijing set a record on Friday as sweltering residents switched on their air conditioners. The Beijing power grid reported peak demand of 12.03 million kilowatts at 2:38 p.m., according to a spokesman with the ...
16 Dec 07		Report: electricity coal prices set to hike further » People's Daily The negotiated price of electricity coal in China has seen an increase of around 10 percent at a meeting that brought together coal producers and power generation plants to settle on purchase contracts and make arrangements for transportat ...
29 Mar 08		Track laying starts on Beijing's No. 4 underground line » People's Daily Track laying started on Friday on Beijing's No. 4 underground line, a second line running south to north in west Beijing. Track laying on the 28-km-long line should be finished by February 2009, and the line is scheduled to go into ...

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