China deploys cloud-seeding planes and cuts electricity use as record heatwave takes toll

China battling its longest heatwave on record, with energy-intensive industries suspended and dams opened to boost flagging hydropower

China is scrambling to alleviate power shortages and bring more water to the drought-hit basin of the Yangtze river as it battles a record-breaking heatwave by seeding clouds, deploying relief funds and developing new sources of supply.

A villager fills up at a water distribution point in Luoping village in south-west China’s Chongqing municipality.The current extreme heat is likely to stem from a “special case” of high pressure from the western Pacific extending over much of Asia, said Cai Wenju, a researcher with Australia’s national scientific research institute, CSIRO.

Other regions on the Yangtze have also launched “cloud seeding” programmes, but with cloud cover too thin, operations in some parched areas have stayed on standby. China should accelerate projects to improve power load management and promote the joint operation of coal power and renewable energy, Han said.

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