The task of industrial energy conservation and emission reduction is arduous - "very bad money"
February 06 11:06:07, 2023
2011 is the first year of the “Twelfth Five-Year Planâ€. The rebound effect of the extraordinary measures taken to complete the “Eleventh Five-Year Plan†energy conservation and emission reduction targets began to show. The energy consumption of the added value of industrial units above designated size decreased in the first three quarters. 2.56%, the gap from the completion of the annual target is still very large. Looking forward to 2012, the slowdown of economic development, the deepening of resource product price reform and the optimization of industrial structure will bring opportunities for industrial energy conservation and emission reduction. At the same time, it will be accompanied by many severe challenges. The difficulty of technical energy conservation and emission reduction will increase the global climate change game. Increasingly intense, green trade barriers have accelerated. The slowdown in economic growth is conducive to energy conservation and emission reduction. The external environment and internal dynamics of China's economic and industrial development are undergoing major changes, and the growth rate is gradually slowing down. It is expected that the economic growth rate will further slow down in 2012, the GDP growth rate will drop to around 8%, and the growth rate of industrial added value above designated size will be around 12%. The slowdown in economic and industrial growth is a rare opportunity for the system to promote industrial energy conservation and emission reduction. From the perspective of industrial internal structure, although the growth rate of added value of heavy industry in 2011 was higher than that of light industry, the growth rate gap narrowed in the shock. Affected by the slowdown in economic growth, this trend will continue in 2012, with the investment slowing down and the steady growth in consumer demand. This structural change is conducive to the decline in energy consumption per unit of industrial added value. Taking real estate investment that drives economic growth as an example, the growth rate of development investment in 2011 dropped from 35.2% in January-February to 32.0% in January-September. It is expected that the investment rate of real estate development will continue to decline in 2012, which will lead to steel, The growth rate of consumer demand for major energy-intensive products such as cement has slowed significantly. The comprehensive work plan for energy conservation and emission reduction in the “Twelfth Five-Year Plan†clearly proposed to deepen the reform of resource product prices, actively promote resource tax and fee reform and environmental tax and fee reform, and the effects of the above reforms will gradually emerge from 2012. In order to alleviate the cost increase brought about by the increase in the tax burden of energy resources consumption, enterprises will inevitably carry out energy conservation and emission reduction work around reducing energy and resource consumption. At the same time, the export tax policy for high-energy-consuming and high-emission products will be further adjusted. By increasing the export cost of high-energy-consumption and high-emission products, the structure of export products will be adjusted to curb the excessive growth of energy-intensive products. Implement a differential electricity price policy and impose punitive electricity prices on enterprises and products whose energy consumption exceeds the energy consumption limit standard per unit of product specified by the state and the region. The implementation of the above fiscal and taxation and price policy measures will help accelerate the establishment of a long-term mechanism for energy conservation and emission reduction. The pace of industrial transformation and upgrading is accelerating, which is conducive to the reduction of energy consumption per unit of industrial added value. The first is to limit the development of the "two high" industry. It is expected that in 2012, China will further improve the access conditions for high-energy-consuming and high-emission industries, improve the entry barriers for energy consumption, environmental protection, and comprehensive utilization of resources in the “two high†industries, and strictly implement energy conservation assessment and review of industrial investment projects. The second is to vigorously cultivate and develop strategic emerging industries. It is estimated that the growth rate of the seven strategic emerging industries will exceed 24% in 2012. Among them, the development speed of the next-generation information technology, biotechnology, high-end equipment manufacturing and other industries will exceed the above-mentioned level, which is conducive to the enhancement of the added value of the entire industry. The third is to speed up the elimination of backward production capacity. In accordance with the requirements of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology "Partial Industrial Industry Elimination of Outdated Production Process Equipment and Product Guidance Catalogue (2010)", in 2012, 6300 kVA iron-iron alloy hot-electric furnace, sintering-blast furnace lead-smelting process, cement dry 11 backward production process equipments such as the hollow heat recovery power kiln, improve the utilization efficiency of industrial energy resources, and promote the decline of energy consumption per unit of industrial added value. Insufficient investment and difficulty in entering financial capital are the biggest bottlenecks. At present, the biggest problem facing China's industrial energy conservation and emission reduction is insufficient investment. Generally speaking, the investment in industrial energy-saving and emission reduction projects is relatively large, and it is difficult to bear the accumulation of enterprises alone, and financial capital is difficult to enter, which is closely related to the characteristics of energy-saving emission reduction projects. The main reasons are: energy conservation and emission reduction are highly specialized, and financial institutions such as banks have a lack of ability to evaluate energy conservation and emission reduction projects; financing costs are relatively high, and they usually do not represent the high-quality assets that can be used for mortgages. The current energy conservation and emission reduction incentive policies are mostly directed at industrial enterprises, lacking guidance for the financial system, and banks and other financial institutions have insufficient credit willingness for energy conservation and emission reduction projects. The reality is that more than 90% of China's energy-saving and emission reduction projects need to be implemented with the support of financial capital. Therefore, it is urgent to solve the bottleneck of insufficient investment in industrial energy conservation and emission reduction, and financial capital is difficult to enter. Another problem is that the central and western regions face the dilemma of accelerating economic development and energy conservation and emission reduction in the short term. At present, the transfer and extension of industries in the eastern coastal areas to the central and western regions is accelerating. Industrial transfer is a double-edged sword. While it has a positive effect on the economic development of the western region, it also inevitably has negative effects. In particular, some high-energy, high-pollution enterprises in the eastern region have used some of the impulses of the central and western regions to rush to develop the economy and carry out industrial transfer. In the short-term, the development of high-energy-consuming and high-emission industries in the central and western regions, especially in energy-rich areas, has comparative advantages. Its development is important for local economic growth, resource development and utilization, labor and employment, fiscal revenue, and foreign trade. . In the long run, the rapid development of the economy in the western region driven by the development of the “two highs†industry is at the expense of high consumption of energy resources, and it will inevitably lead to greater environmental problems and is unsustainable. In addition, China's differentiated industrial energy conservation and emission reduction policies have yet to be introduced. The current energy conservation and emission reduction policies do not reflect regional differences and corporate differences. From the perspective of the region, there are large differences in the level of economic development, industrial characteristics, energy resource endowments, and resource and energy use efficiency among the eastern, central and western regions of China. From east to west, the proportion of high-energy-consuming industries is increasing, and the central and western regions are at a critical stage of accelerated development. From the perspective of enterprises, there are also large differences in energy resource utilization efficiency among different enterprises in the same industry. For example, the comprehensive AC power consumption of the best companies in the electrolytic aluminum industry is about 13,000 kWh/ton of aluminum, which is already at the advanced level in the world. The poor company is 16,000 kWh/ton of aluminum. A unified energy-saving and emission-reduction policy will bring about the problem of unevenness of bitterness, which is not conducive to the accelerated development of the central and western regions with relatively low energy resource utilization efficiency, and is not conducive to further exerting competitive advantages in the eastern coastal areas. Transforming industrial energy conservation and emission reduction work ideas In response to the above problems, the policy measures that should be taken in 2012 are: First, transform the industrial energy conservation and emission reduction work ideas. First, adhere to the combination of key points and comprehensive promotion. While focusing on energy conservation and emission reduction in key industries and key enterprises, we will gradually promote energy conservation and emission reduction to the entire industry and small and medium-sized enterprises. The second is to adhere to the combination of production process and product use of energy conservation and emission reduction, strengthen ecological design and green manufacturing, create a green industrial chain, and reduce energy and resource consumption. Third, adhere to the combination of optimized stocks and control increments, continue to increase the elimination of backward production capacity, and curb the excessive growth of production capacity in high-energy-consuming industries. Fourth, adhere to the combination of “bringing in†and “going outâ€, actively introducing foreign advanced and applicable energy-saving and emission-reduction technologies, and encouraging qualified key industry enterprises to build factories and industrial parks abroad. Second, innovate industrial investment and financing mechanisms for energy conservation and emission reduction. First, give full play to the guiding role of the central government's special funds for energy conservation and emission reduction, promote local financial funds to industrial energy conservation and emission reduction projects, and encourage key industrial enterprises to increase investment in energy conservation and emission reduction. The second is to increase the credit support of various financial institutions for industrial energy conservation and emission reduction projects, establish a bank green rating system, and encourage financial institutions to innovate credit models suitable for the characteristics of industrial energy conservation and emission reduction projects. The third is to study and establish industrial energy conservation and emission reduction industry funds, pilot projects in some key industries, accumulate and sum up experience, and widely promoted in the industrial industry after successful pilot projects. The fourth is to explore the establishment of industrial bulk solid waste comprehensive utilization fund in the field of industrial solid waste comprehensive utilization, drawing on the concept of extension of producer responsibility. In addition, research and develop differentiated industrial energy conservation and emission reduction policies. First, study and formulate regional industrial energy conservation and emission reduction differentiation policies, and fully consider the regional differences between the eastern and central and western regions in terms of eliminating backward production capacity, evaluating new environmental assessments, and making arrangements for energy conservation and emission reduction. The second is to study and formulate the differentiation policy for energy conservation and emission reduction in the industrial sector, and fully consider the differences between key industries and general industries in terms of energy conservation and emission reduction technology equipment promotion, energy consumption and total pollutant emission control. The third is to study and formulate the differentiation policy for energy-saving and emission reduction of industrial enterprises, and fully consider the differences between large enterprises and small and medium-sized enterprises in energy conservation and emission reduction services, green procurement, and green credit.