Record Heat in China Strains Power Grid, Stirs Health Fears

China warned on Wednesday against the risk of power supply disruptions as people struggled to keep cool in record heat baking large swathes of the country, which also spurred warnings to the elderly to guard against heat stroke.

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Power supply suffers while demand surges, exceeding 1.5 billion kilowatts for the first time last week, energy officials said, in a third new record for China this month, when its first nationwide alert on heat-related health risks also went out. “High-temperature weather will ... have an impact on power generation and supply,” weather official Chen Hui told a press conference on Wednesday, adding that it would hit hydropower output and re