Twelve Five Energy Consumption Caps or 4 Billion Tons of Standard Coal

Despite controversy, China's "reasonable control of energy consumption" put forward in the "Twelfth Five-Year Plan" is still moving forward. A person close to the decision-making level stated that the total annual energy consumption in China during the 12th Five-Year Plan period will be controlled at around 4 billion tons of standard coal.

Earlier, officials of the National Energy Administration revealed in late October that China's "12th Five-Year Plan" energy consumption target will be decomposed and implemented in various local governments in the near future. The total energy consumption will be strictly controlled and assessed. The central government will regard the implementation of total control targets as an important part of the evaluation methods of the local party and government leadership groups and leading cadres. At the same time, it will reasonably control the completion of energy consumption and new energy projects in various regions and new high energy consumption. Project hooks.

As one of China’s leaders in advancing the transformation of economic development methods, the "Twelfth Five-Year Plan" adopted in March this year explicitly stated that it is necessary to reasonably control total energy consumption, accelerate the formulation of energy development plans, and clearly define the total control objectives and decomposition. Implementation mechanism. Although the practice of controlling total energy consumption is considered by some to have a planned economy and may be opposed by local governments, this work is still progressing in an orderly manner.

A key task in controlling total energy consumption is to study the control targets for determining total energy consumption. Previously, it was reported that the National Energy Administration's proposed "12th Five-Year Plan" energy consumption total control target is about 4.1 billion tons of standard coal, and the expected total energy consumption reported by various localities exceeds 5 billion tons of standard coal.

China’s “Eleventh Five-Year Plan for Energy Development” issued in 2007 stated that by 2010, the national total energy consumption control target is about 2.7 billion tons of standard coal, but last year China’s total energy consumption reached 32.5. Billion tons of standard coal exceeded the initial control targets. Among them, the total coal consumption in China has exceeded 3 billion tons in 2009, far exceeding the "Eleventh Five-Year" plan of 2.5 billion tons.

The aforementioned person near the decision-making level stated that in the total energy consumption control, the total consumption of fossil energy, especially coal, will be strictly controlled, but the consumption of renewable energy, unconventional natural gas, including coal-bed methane, and other energy sources. The total amount will be "leafhole." Officials of the National Energy Administration had previously stated that during the assessment, the newly added consumption of hydropower, wind power, solar energy, and comprehensive utilization of energy such as coal gangue power generation will be deducted.