China’s energy administration has pledged to alleviate electricity shortages in Sichuan and Chongqing, which have ordered power cuts for industrial plants and even households, disrupting the operations of global heavyweights including Tesla Inc. and Apple Inc. China will transfer electricity from other regions to ensure orderly power supplies in the southwestern areas struck by searing heat and drought, the National Energy Administration said, without giving details, in a report by China Energy News on Wednesday. Sichuan province lacks the coal capacity to cover the drop in hydro production caused by the summer’s heatwave, according to BloombergNEF analyst Nannan Kou. Transferring electricity from elsewhere would be difficult because the province is a power exporter and doesn’t have the infrastructure to receive enough supply from other regions, he said. Sichuan has told nearly all industrial users to halt production to meet household power demands, although the shortage is expected […]