The Development and Reform Commission of Inner Mongolia has cancelled the preferential discounted electricity price for energy-intensive industries – one of the biggest and most significant electricity price hikes in China so far, in a trend going back 12 months. As is typical for many Chinese policies, each of its 33 province-level territories have discretion to enact price rises differently. Back in January, five provinces throughout the heartland announced electricity price rises of 50% to 70% during peak hours. In May, wealthy coastal Zhejiang announced a $25 per MWh, 35% increase for energy-intensive businesses. By June, the grids of Hebei, Shandong, Henan, Shaanxi, Gansu, Ningxia and Xinjiang – five of those seven are in the northwestern periphery – had raised…