{"id":47520,"date":"2022-08-16T14:12:18","date_gmt":"2022-08-16T05:12:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/16\/china-rations-electricity-to-factories-as-heatwave-sees-power-demand-surge"},"modified":"2022-08-16T14:12:18","modified_gmt":"2022-08-16T05:12:18","slug":"china-rations-electricity-to-factories-as-heatwave-sees-power-demand-surge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=47520","title":{"rendered":"China rations electricity to factories as heatwave sees power demand surge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Move likely to hit output of lithium, used in electric car batteries, from factories in Sichuan where temperatures sit above 40 degrees<\/p>\n<p>Chinese lithium hub Sichuan province will ration electricity supply to factories until Saturday, state media reported, as a heatwave sends power demands soaring and dries up reservoirs.<\/p>\n<p>Temperatures in the province \u2013 home to nearly 84 million people \u2013 have hovered above 40-42 degrees Celsius (104-108 degrees fahrenheit) since last week, according to data from China\u2019s Meteorological Administration, increasing the demand for air conditioning.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/16\/china-rations-electricity-to-factories-as-heatwave-sees-power-demand-surge\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Move likely to hit output of lithium, used in electric car batteries, from factories in Sichuan where temperatures sit above 40 degreesChinese lithium hub Sichuan province will ration electricity supply to factories until Saturday, state media reported&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[50,455],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-extreme-weather"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47520"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47521,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47520\/revisions\/47521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}