By 2020, the total coal consumption will be controlled within 20.85 million tons

Zhengzhou Municipal Government recently issued the Circular on the Publication of Zhengzhou Coal Consumption Reduction Action Plan (2019-2020). By 2020, Zhengzhou will strive to control the total coal consumption in the city within 2.85 million tons, and the proportion of electricity and coal consumption will reach more than 65%.

According to the Notice, Zhengzhou will insist on both reducing stock and strictly controlling increment, laying equal stress on energy efficiency improvement and structural optimization, and strive to reduce coal consumption in non-electric industries and reduce the physical quantity of coal. By 2020, we will strive to control the total coal consumption in the city to less than 20.85 million tons, down by about 31% compared with 2015; the concentration of coal consumption will further increase, and the proportion of electricity and coal consumption will reach more than 65%.

For this purpose, during the 13th Five-Year Plan period, Zhengzhou will prohibit the approval, approval and filing of new (expanded or reformed) coal-consuming projects, and relevant departments shall not go through the formalities of environmental assessment, safety assessment and energy assessment of coal-consuming projects, so as to control the increment of coal consumption from the source. Strictly enforce the regulations on access to key coal-consuming industries of the state and provinces, prohibit the construction and expansion of traditional industrial projects with excess capacity such as coal, iron and steel, electrolytic aluminium, cement, traditional coal chemical industry and coking, and prohibit the addition of new chemical industrial parks throughout the city. At the same time, we should deepen energy saving and consumption reduction in the power industry. We will conscientiously implement policies and measures for energy conservation and emission reduction in the coal and power industry in order to improve the utilization efficiency of electricity and coal. In 2020, the coal consumption of power supply for public coal-fired units in the city will be controlled within 300 grams of standard coal/kilowatt-hour, and the proportion of coal-fired power generation will fulfill the target task. At the same time, Zhengzhou will formulate action plans for reducing coal consumption in key industries such as non-ferrous metals, steel, building materials, coking, chemical industry, coal mining and washing, implement stricter local standards for environmental protection, energy consumption, quality and safety, guide enterprises to upgrade their standards, close down and eliminate backward and inefficient production capacity that fail to meet the standards in accordance with regulations, and reduce the energy consumption of high-energy industries. Source and coal consumption.

Strictly enforce the laws and standards of quality, environmental protection, energy consumption and safety, and implement shutdown and production restriction, shutdown and withdrawal according to law and regulations. We will intensify the shutdown and renovation of coal-fired power plants owned by enterprises. In strict accordance with national and provincial deployments, illegal construction of self-contained power plants should be cleaned up, shutdown and renovation of self-contained coal-fired units with high energy consumption and emission should be intensified, and the elimination of pure condensation units with a single unit capacity of 300,000 kW or less should be accelerated.