Yiwu E-tailers Sell Electricity on the Internet

Yiwu E-tailers Sell “Electricity” on the Internet

Recently there is a phenomenon that a lot of Yiwu e-tailers sell gasoline engine generators on the Internet. In the Taobao shop of Exploiting Hardware, gasoline engine generator is a new kind of goods, while several buyers have already placed orders. Yiwu e-tailers sell “electricity” on the Internet is a result of “electricity vacancy” which is commonly seen in Zhejiang Province these years. The summer electricity using peak has not come, the most serious power failures since 2004 has emerged in Zhejiang. Some experts predict that during the next National Twelfth Five-Year Plan period, Zhejiang power gap will reach more than 10 million kilowatt. China Electric Power Enterprise Association released in a report that the national electric power supply and demond of this year is overall tight, especially during summer peaks, the electricity supply gap will be expanded further. The expected gap will be 30 million kilowatts. The chairman of Exploiting Hardware said that during the electricity vacancy in 2003, few manufacturers making pint-sized gasoline engine generators. And many people go to Yiwu Huangyuan market specially to buy their generators. They could sell hunderds of generators one day at that time. This year, they mainly sell gasoline engine generators of 3 kilowatts which could be matched with a 1.5 horsepower air conditioner and five computers. If not using air conditioner, it could supply electricity for 12 computers. Thus the temporary network outage crisis could be solved We may see that gasoline engine generators could find a good market during the following years. Although the gasoline engine generators are hot selling, the price will not be worried about. The chairman of Exploiting Hardware said that they will ensure the quality of their products. And at the same time, they will carry out national unified price. And they believe that their cost performance will be the highest.