Energy Saving News
Energy Saving Power Cuts Closes Factories
EAST China’s Anhui province has suspended electricity supply to factories and enterprises in the region due to a failure to meet the energy conservation and emission reduction goal set by the provincial government.
Many of the factories being closed down are in industries that require high-energy consumption but could still find areas to reduce power supply, but some of the factories even increased their energy use during the past six months.
This year is the last of Anhui's 11th five-year plan, which set a target of decreasing energy consumption by 20 percent. From 2005 to 2009, the province had achieved an 80 percent reduction.
Zhao De from the Office of Energy Conservation of the province's Department of Economic and Information Technology said, "The factories consume large amounts of energy and some of their high energy consumption is due to the factories' antiquated production facilities."
Such facilities and technologies could be upgraded and adjusted to save energy. This is the first time that these facilities have had their electricity cut off in such a large number.
In the next month the factories must stop production lines that require higher energy use and use the downtime to examine and repair any faulty or non energy saving equipment.
Local factories are concerned at the effect the electricity suspension will have on their business operations but need to concentrate on how they can make changes to meet energy saving plans which will, in the long run, improve their businesses and save them money.
"The one month cut-off will also help the province to pass the peak time for electricity consumption during the high temperature period," Zhao said.
This year many areas in China have conducted a similar practice in restricting electricity use, both to achieve energy conservation goals and to ease the demand during the peak period for electricity use.
Nanjing in Jiangsu province has restricted the electricity use to 1,000 local businesses since August 12. The city asked factories with high-energy demands to stop production.
In the city of Jinhua of Zhejiang province, 69 high-energy consuming enterprises have also had their electricity restricted from July to September.
Monday 16th August 2010
