Q1 energy consumption per unit of GDP drops 5.9%
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- Published: Monday, 18 June 2012 09:24
Ningbo's energy consumption per unit of gross domestic product (GDP) dropped 5.9 percent year on year in the first quarter of this year, said Ningbo Energy Conservation Office on June 11. Among which, energy consumption per unit of added value of industrial enterprises above the designated size jumped 6.2 percent against the same period of last year, making it the best performance in recent years.
In the first quarter of this year, the added value of industrial enterprises above the designated size increased 2.8 percent while its total energy consumption dropped 3.6 percent. “The fact reflected the determination of Ningbo to adjust its industrial structure”, said Lin Keyu, Director of Ningbo Energy Conservation Office. Industrial energy conservation is of vital importance for Ningbo to finish its obligatory target for saving energies in the circumstance that industrial energy consumption accounts for three fourths of its total.
In face with the severe situation of restricted resources and the larger percentage of heavy industries, Ningbo authority has made great efforts in the monitoring, supervising and early warning of energy conservation. To be specific, it has improved three integrated mechanisms including the responsibility mechanism, the system of veto by one note and the administrative accountability system. It has also implemented three projects ranging from industrial structure, techniques and management. In addition, it has adopted legal, economic and administrative means to urge every sector to give prominence to energy conservation.
The adjustment and upgrading of industrial structure is the key to energy conservation. Along with the quickened pace in developing strategic emerging industries and reforming traditional industries, Ningbo will add more force to close down backward production facilities and equipments, put restriction on the production and export of resource products and products whose production is energy intensive or highly polluting and improve the efficiency on energy allocation. At the same time, Ningbo will also build up and improve the incentive and restraining mechanism for the close down of highly-polluting and highly-energy consuming industries, and enlarge the implementation area for differential electricity pricing system as well as improve the mechanism to close down backward production capability.
To set up a long-term mechanism enabling enterprises to increase investment on energy conservation, Ningbo will intensify the popularization and appliance of new energy-saving technologies, equipments and products while centering on the ten energy-saving projects including the transformation of steady boilers and kilns, the upgrading of energy system and so on.
According to the special plan for energy conservation in the 12th five year period, to the year 2015, over 6600 enterprises above the designated size must fulfill its energy-saving goals and 114 key energy consumption enterprises should save 2.23 mln tons of standard coal. Ningbo should also finish 1,000 transformation projects adopting energy-saving technologies to save 1 mln tons of standard coal each year, carry out 1,000 auditing projects of clean production, and close down backward production capability in 14 highly-polluting and highly-energy consuming industries in order to reduce 0.3 mln tons of standard coal each year.
