China's current electricity price policy to promote energy-saving and emission reduction in the power industry

Business News Agency July 27th Renewable energy price policy In order to promote the development of renewable energy, China has issued a series of laws and regulations related to renewable energy tariffs, summed up to see, including a law, two methods and several normative and Operational documents.

A law refers to the "Renewable Energy Law" that was issued in 2005 and formally implemented on January 1, 2006 and further revised in 2009. The two methods refer to the "Trial Measures for the Management of Renewable Energy Power Generation Prices and Expenses" issued in 2006 and the "Provisional Measures for the Allocation of Additional Energy for Renewable Energy Prices" issued in 2007. A number of normative and operational documents include the notification of the regulation of on-grid tariffs issued in 2009, the notification of the on-grid tariffs for biomass power generation issued in 2010, and other specific notification documents for the verification of wind energy, solar energy, and biomass energy prices. , The three price adjustment documents (coal coal price price linkage document) that adjust the additional price of electricity, and the one-to-two annual additional price subsidy and allocation trading plan.

The implementation of the renewable energy tariff policy has greatly promoted the enthusiasm of the whole society to invest in renewable energy, promoted the development of renewable energy, and played an active role in increasing energy supply, improving energy structure, and promoting energy conservation and emission reduction in the power industry.

Off-line price policy for power industry coal-fired units to install off the device caused the problem of increased costs, China's 2004 introduced a special off the price policy, in the coal-fired unit on-grid tariffs to be 1.5 cents per kilowatt-hour compensation. The implementation of the off-price policy has mobilized the enthusiasm of power generation companies to install off-site facilities and effectively reduced the emissions of carbon dioxide*.

It is understood that in 2010, the country's electricity dioxide dioxide emissions 9.26 million tons, down 2.3% over the previous year. By the end of 2010, more than 560 million kilowatts of flue gas desulphurization units had been put into operation in China, accounting for approximately 86% of the country's coal power unit capacity; the capacity of the flue gas denitrification units that had been put into operation was approximately 90 million kilowatts, accounting for approximately 14% of the coal power unit capacity. %; The capacity of denitrification projects under construction and planning (including planned power plant projects) exceeds 100 million kilowatts.

In the future, with the further expansion of the scale of installation and dismantling of coal-fired units in China, the contribution of the industry's CO2 emission reduction will be even greater.

Differential electricity price policy China has implemented the differential electricity price policy for high-energy-consuming enterprises since 2004. It will differentiate eight high-energy-consuming industries such as electrolytic aluminum, ferroalloy, calcium carbide, caustic soda, cement, iron and steel, yellow phosphorus, and zinc smelting. Allowed and encouraged companies to try different pricing policies with different price levels. In 2006, the National Development and Reform Commission also promulgated the Opinions on Perfecting the Differential Electricity Pricing Policy, using price levers to encourage and support advanced production technologies such as environmental protection and energy conservation, eliminate backward production capacity, guide the rational distribution of energy-intensive industries, and suppress high energy consumption. The industry blindly develops and promotes the optimization and upgrading of industrial structure.

The implementation of the differential pricing policy has effectively curbed the blind development of high-energy-consuming industries, and has played a positive role in promoting structural adjustment and industrial upgrading and improving energy efficiency.

Energy Conservation Dispatching Economic Compensation Policy In 2009, the State Electricity Regulatory Commission and other three departments issued the “Notice on Relevant Issues Concerning Energy-Saving Power Generation Dispatching Pilot Economic Compensation Issues”. Generators that are in stand-by mode and generate little electricity generate economic compensation. Through economic compensation, we will further promote the deployment of energy-saving power generation dispatches and promotion throughout the country, and promote energy conservation and emission reduction in the power industry. According to calculations, in 2010, Jiangsu, Henan, and Sichuan passed energy-saving power generation dispatches, saving a total of 3.98 million tons of standard coal, reducing carbon dioxide emissions by 10.12 million tons, and reducing carbon dioxide emissions by 97,500 tons.

The ladder price policy “ladder price” is called “stepped progressive price” and refers to setting the average electricity consumption per household to a number of steps. The first ladder has less electricity, the price of electricity is lower, and the second ladder has higher electricity. Electricity prices are also higher, and so on. As the average electricity consumption per household increases, so does the electricity price. Through the use of more electricity and more payment methods, on the one hand to promote residents' awareness of power conservation, on the other hand, it also reflects the concept of social justice. At present, the provinces in China that implement the pilot scheme for residential electricity prices include Zhejiang, Sichuan, Fujian, Hubei, and Guizhou. The implementation shows that the rapid growth of the electricity consumption of residents has changed a lot, and the policy has achieved significant results.

On the basis of local pilots, on October 9, 2010, the National Development and Reform Commission formally announced the “Guidance on the implementation of ladder electricity prices for residential electricity use (draft for solicitation of opinions)”, and publicly solicited electricity from the ladder electricity price for residents. opinion. The plan divides the monthly electricity consumption of urban and rural residents into three levels according to the basic electricity demand, normal and reasonable electricity demand, and higher quality of life electricity demand. The first stall price is in principle maintained at a lower price level. Second The tariffs are gradually adjusted to compensate for the normal and reasonable costs of the power companies and to obtain a reasonable level of return. The third-rate tariffs should appropriately reflect the scarcity of resources and compensate for the cost of environmental damage.