Enigin Update - Work Plan sees China Remain Tough on Energy Use
CHINA has issued a working plan to increase the country's energy efficiency by 2015, issued by the State Council, China’s cabinet, yesterday.
The plan reinforces China’s goal of reducing energy consumption by 16 percent for every 10,000-yuan unit of GDP by 2015 compared to the figure five years earlier. The plan hence aims to save the equivalent of 670 million tons of coal for the five years through to 2015.
Chinese Premier, Wen Jiabao, has prioritised reducing pollution, lessening the effects of the country’s economic growth and lessening the wealth gap. China is the world’s second largest economy and the biggest energy consumer, with coal currently accounting for about 70 percent of energy consumption.
As we have previously reported on these pages a lower growth target was set by China in their 12th Five-Year Plan through to 2015, to create a more sustainable economy. The working plan involves limiting the expansion of high energy consuming and high polluting industries over the five years, and to acquire 11.4 percent of energy from non-fossil fuels by 2015.
An extra saving by 2015 will have to be made in the provinces of Zhejiang, Jiangsu and Guangdong and the cities of Shanghai and Tianjin, with their targets set to reduce energy use by 18 percent for every unit of GDP.
Enigin Distributors in the region again are armed and ready to enable industry and commerce to gain control of their energy consumption while maintaining services and production, through introducing energy control solutions from Enigin - reducing emissions, consumptions and energy costs.
Picture of China Xinyu heavy industry by Harald Groven reproduced under CCL.
