Exclusive: Sichuan and Yunnan power systems crack down on direct power supply mining farms

Wu said blockchain has learned exclusively that the power systems in Sichuan and Yunnan provinces are working hard to rectify direct-supply power mines. Among them, Sichuan issued a document emphasizing the protection of compliant mines and cracking down on direct-supply power mines. Some direct-supply power mines have been cut off. Under the influence of the epidemic, the State Grid's profits were negative in the first quarter. Cracking down on traditional direct-supply power mines is beneficial to the interests of the demonstration zone mines and the State Grid, but it is tantamount to a disaster for small hydropower and direct-supply power mines.

Yunnan Power Grid issued a document on April 13, stating that according to a preliminary screening of the comprehensive power consumption rates of 134 hydropower plants and 11 thermal power plants included in the provincial power balance in 2019, the comprehensive power consumption rates of most prefectures and cities connected to the grid were abnormally high to varying degrees. The document requires a comprehensive cleanup of the problem of illegal private power transfer by grid-connected power plants.

Most of the Sichuan miners learned and told Wu Blockchain that the Sichuan State Grid issued a document on May 28, requiring the standardization and governance of power supply to illegal factories, but avoiding a "one-size-fits-all" standardization and governance approach. For those who meet the policy conditions and are willing to connect to the public power grid, we will do our best to provide services; for power plants and illegal power supply companies that refuse to rectify their unauthorized direct supply behavior, we will handle relevant issues in accordance with laws and regulations.

Tianquan County in Ya'an directly released a rectification case. On June 2, the Ya'an State Grid Tianquan County Power Supply Company, together with the county's Economic and Science Bureau, Public Security Bureau, and China Mobile and Telecom companies, rectified the illegal access of power equipment to Ganxipo Power Station and Jiaojiping Power Station in Tianquan County within the Ya'an power grid for Bitcoin "mining".

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The article said that the electricity figures of Ganxipo Power Station and Jiaojiping Power Station that were arbitrarily transferred to blockchain companies were recorded and archived, and the illegal "mining" behavior was further verified with the power station operation personnel and the defaulting electricity-using companies, and the power stations and companies involved in the defaulting electricity use were informed to implement rectification immediately.

The article stated that the power generation enterprises arbitrarily transferred power to blockchain enterprises, which violated the "Power Purchase and Sales Contract" signed with the State Grid Corporation of China, and also violated the "Electricity Law of the People's Republic of China" and "Power Supply Business Rules" and other relevant regulations. The county's Economic and Science Bureau, Public Security Bureau and power supply company adopted the policy interpretation of the "Implementation Opinions on Building a Hydropower Consumption Demonstration Zone to Support the Development of the Blockchain Industry" to promote the development of blockchain technology and industry, cultivate and develop the blockchain industry with the advantage of electricity prices, and promote the consumption of hydropower clean energy with the increase of electricity load. The State Grid Tianquan County Power Supply Company will continue to work with relevant municipal and county departments to strengthen the supervision and inspection of the power supply and use order in the development of the blockchain industry in the supply area, and resolutely crack down on the use of electricity in violation of the law.

Ya'an is the most active city in Sichuan in promoting the hydropower consumption demonstration zone. It has issued the "Implementation Opinions on Building a Hydropower Consumption Demonstration Zone to Support the Development of the Blockchain Industry", requiring it to seize major strategic opportunities for the development of the blockchain industry, promote the healthy and orderly development of blockchain technology and industry, promote the high-quality consumption of hydropower resources, and cultivate new growth points for economic development.