"In 2011, when the standard was published, when coal prices are higher, and allow power companies toimplement environmental policies, increase investment in environmental protection is really helpless. "LouJin Qi, Henan electric power Design Institute, Deputy Chief Engineer admitted that power plant in Henan province, the operation is representative.


For example, he said, Datang group Henan branch's loss of a billion of dollars that year, one of the plant's debt even more than 100% and have to sold for one dollar for each unit of coal chemical enterprise.


10 East of Hexi in 10 years. With coal prices remained low for nearly two years, the Henan provincial coalprices from a peak of around 1100 Yuan per ton now declined to less than 700 Yuan/ton. Lou Jin Qi told reporters that belong to the Tang dynasty before a full-scale power plant under annual losses of more than 100 million Yuan, but as of August this year, has made profits exceeding 800 million Yuan.


It is understood, for the protection of provincial coal enterprises economic benefit in Henan and otherprovinces also enforce fixed prices of coal "coal electric mutual insurance" ordering policies. Accordingto Henan electricity annual consumption of about 240 million tons of coal, electricity and enterprise implementation at this stage about 50 Yuan/ton above the market price of coal prices, annual 12 billionyuan in direct subsidies to coal enterprises in Henan, and the money is supposed to be power companies 'profits.


Not only in central Henan province, declines in the price of coal power plant earns a fist full ofexamples being staged as much. In Shandong, a large-scale electric power Corp plant set a profit target of1.2 billion dollars last year, according to coal prices this year to a profit of nearly 2 billion yuan, 3years to recoup their investments.


"Precisely because of the power companies in the past two years to taste the sweetness, disguised pulledits investment in environmental protection initiatives. "According to industry sources, coal prices are atlow levels, plenty of funds on hand are part of power enterprise standard, ask" near-zero-emission "first.


According to the China electricity Council Secretary-General Wang Zhixuan views, "near-zero-emission"campaign was motivated by business rather than government-sponsored, due to the intrinsic motivation of certain enterprises.


He in published Yu China environment reported Enterprise weekly of enterprise why active carried out "near zero emissions"? a paper in the mentioned: "plenty of to obtained on Enterprise current or future development favourable of, and new of coal electric project of approval, plenty of to existing coal electric of survival, to prevent excessive shut stopped also in ' young ' and has good benefits of coal electric unit, plenty of fear Government let enterprise implementation gas alternative coal electric and pay than ' Near-zero emission ' around dozens of times times higher cost, also reached an agreement withlocal government for various reasons. ”


This reporter learned from the concerned Department, currently flagging National Energy Board new thermal power projects by default in "near-zero-emission" standards, some provincial development and Reform Commission's Energy Department only to "near-zero-emission" project release.


Is it necessary to clean emissions?


Power companies are not on the same level, some power plants has not transformed space and coal qualityvariation greatly influenced emissions


A power group of Shandong branch, head of environmental protection, Zhang, the "near-zero-emission" amile stone from cut-throat competition curtain drawn, high emissions standards will only make business"ever put on your pants."


"Different situations among the power plants, it itself is not on the same level. "He's pessimistic that,while there is no requirement plants" near-zero-emission "standards, but that day will come sooner or later, and he plants where almost no space.


Zhu Fahua believes that existing standards are the most stringent, by 2020 there should be no mention ofpossible. "My personal view, the current round of clean emission improvement boom is an act of self-fulfillment of social responsibility of enterprises and promote the development of clean emissions. ”


However, he also said that, in a number of key areas to achieve clean emissions there would be demand forenvironmental improvement in the objective of, but in relatively backward areas, extensive pollution isstill very serious, implementation of clean emissions are a bit more harm than good.


Zhu Fahua noted that there was general awareness of clean emissions at present is not in place, "in fact,this super-clean emissions run the first year, rare, did not fully understand its possible problems. "Headmitted that clean emissions is only present as a model demonstration project, no requirement in thecurrent environment, an absence of Government incentives, monitoring tools do not support the case, remainhyper-no pressure, no enterprises NET running.


There is also a more practical question: coal. Wang Zhixuan believes that low sulphur, low ash, high heatvalue coal is to achieve "near-zero-emission" the basic premise, but the conditions for China's currentaverage sulphur content exceeding 1%, ash, near 30%, and contains a lot of low volatile coal, even if theimplementation of special emission limit values, it is very difficult.

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