Enigin Update - Beijing Wields Energy Saving Iron-Fist over Anping Action
CHINA’S industrial heartland has been thrown into chaos after Beijing use their promised “iron-fist’ to impose energy and carbon emission cuts.
As we reported earlier this week the local government in Anping region cut power to hospitals, schools, homes and other public facilities, even switching off traffic lights, all in a bid to meet the 2010 energy efficiency goals set by Beijing.
The local media reported that over the last two weeks workers and the general populace in the region have endured day-long blackouts.
However, Beijing have now entered the fray, they have stated that cutting power in the way the local government had, did not conform with central government policy and have ordered supplies to be restored to residential and public facilities.
But the blackouts and enforced power cuts are still affecting industry in Hebei province, with the provincial office for energy-saving and pollution reduction ordering further power cuts for energy-intensive and major polluting companies.
The region accounts for a quarter of the country's total steel production capacity, hence some 57 blast furnaces and production lines have been closed since 4 September, all to save energy to achieve China's energy-efficiency goal of a 20% reduction in energy consumption per unit of economic output, or energy intensity, by the end of 2010.
An office manager at Wanxing wire mesh factory in Anping, revealed:
“We had no water to flush the toilet, we couldn't use the fridge and, of course, production stopped,''
He added he had struggled through 10 days of random black-outs, some as long as 22 hours:
“We often didn't hear the power-cut notices, partly because we couldn't watch TV,'' he said.
Last month Beijing ordered more than 2,000 factories to shut by the end of September because they were inefficient and was wasting too much energy.
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