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Table 2-9. Specific Energy Consumption of Top-Runners in Energy-Intensive Industries (2017)
Sector and Process
Top-Runner Specific
Unit
Energy Consumption
Sintering process in iron and steel sector
Ethylene sector
Ammonia (high-quality bituminous coal)
Ammonia (regular bituminous coal)
Ammonia (lignite)
Ammonia (natural gas)
Petroleum refining
Methanol (coal)
Methanol (natural gas)
Methanol (coke oven gas)
Cement
Flat glass
Electrolytic aluminum
Copper smelting
Source: MIIT, 2018a.
38.00
501.40
1,079.00
1,206.00
1,225.00
1,020.00
6.55
1,378.00
1,133.00
1,183.00
95.70
11.56
12,817.00
259.51
kgce/t
kgoe/t
kgce/t
kgce/t
kgce/t
kgce/t
kgoe/t
kgce/t
kgce/t
kgce/t
kgce/t clinker
kgce/weight case
kWh/t
kgce/t
Unit Energy Consumption Limit Standards
Unit Energy Consumption Limit Standards that have been developed to cover major
industrial sectors have recently expanded to cover other areas, such as water energy
conservation and recycled material utilization.
China began to develop mandatory Unit Energy Consumption Limit Standards in 2005. Since
then, the coverage of the standards has expanded from traditional energy-intensive industries
such as steel, nonferrous metals, chemicals, building materials, coal, electricity, light industry,
petroleum, and transportation to new emerging areas such as water efficiency and recycling.
The government began the process of revising many of the existing standards in 2017 with a
goal to update 300 standards by 2020, to reflect the current improvement in energy efficiency
and technology adoption (MIIT, 2017b).
Measures for enforcing mandatory unit energy consumption limit standards include making
public a name list of enterprises that have not met the standards, requiring those enterprises
that have failed to meet the obligation to stop operation and make improvements, and placing
those enterprises that have no way to meet the obligation on a phase-out list. The
implementation of mandatory energy consumption limit standards is also linked to the
implementation of differential electricity pricing (see below).
Differential Electricity Pricing
An innovative policy measure targeted at energy-intensive products by linking mandatory
electricity prices with energy-efficiency levels which has led to some success but which also has
potential for increased use by local governments to achieve their energy and emission reduction
goals.
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