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Table 2-14. Green Cooling Action Plan Targets for 2020 and 2030
Additional improvement in energy efficiency of
major cooing products
Increase in cooling energy efficiency of large
public buildings
Increase in market share of green and efficient
cooling products
Annual electricity savings
2020
30% compared to existing
MEPS
2030
25% compared to 2022
levels
30% from current levels
20%
40% compared to 2022
shares
400 billion kWh
100 billion kWh
Increase Fuel Switching/Reduce Dispersed Coal
In North China, fuel switching and technology upgrades are being promoted in national
policies and subnational subsidy programs not only to reduce energy use, but also to
alleviate air pollution related to dispersed coal use.
In support of national environmental and air quality goals to reduce low-quality, highly
polluting, dispersed or scattered coal combustion, a number of regional and city-level policies
have been adopted to promote fuel switching in building equipment use. New policies released
in Northern China over the last year focused on immediate action to reduce dispersed coal use,
including elimination of all small coal-fired boilers that use dispersed coal in rural residential
households in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei (Jing-Jin-Ji) region by 2020, setting specific targets for
alternative heating technologies to replace dispersed coal boilers, and an overall 2020 phaseout target for Jing-Jin-Ji (State Council, 2017; MEE, 2016; MEE, 2018). In addition to targets, a
number of municipalities and provinces have launched subsidy programs for electric heating
equipment (e.g., Beijing, Hebei, Shanxi, Gansu) and natural gas equipment (e.g., Beijing, Tianjin,
Hebei). It was estimated that dispersed coal consumption in provinces under the program had
fallen by 61 Mt in 2018 (CEC, 2019c).
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