Hunan Coal and Electricity Conservation Action

In more than 90 days, more than 11 million tons of coal was transferred into the coal-fired power grid. From the end of September, 1.26 million tons of coal was stockpiled, and the amount of electricity used was only about 10 days. It has soared to the current 3.6 million tons and can be used for nearly a month.

Once the precarious Power Supply situation in our province was completely reversed in a relatively short period of time, since the beginning of October, the province’s urban and rural areas have not cut off power for three consecutive months, fully satisfying the electricity demand of the province and existing Depositing coal can ensure stable supply of electricity throughout the province this winter and next spring.

The arrival of winter in power peaks has already come. Sanxiang’s land is well protected, whether it is lighting, heating, etc., or electricity for workers, peasants, and businesses.

This is the vivid practice of the provincial party committee and the provincial government that attaches great importance to people's livelihood. It is the result of concerted effort and practical work by all departments at all levels in the province. It is the result of the coal-fired power companies taking into account the overall situation and the courage to take on the responsibility. It is the unity of the cadres and workers. The results of tenacious struggle.

National energy resources are tight, Hunan's electricity supply is "somewhat worse"

Up to now, the total installed capacity of our province has reached more than 30 million kilowatts. Among them, more than 16 million kilowatts of thermal power installed capacity and more than 14 million kilowatts of hydropower installed capacity. According to electricity consumption and power generation capacity, as long as all generating units can provide normal power, the province's electricity supply is not a problem.

However, this year the province's water is particularly dry, and the hydropower output is severely limited. According to statistics from the meteorological and hydrological departments, the total amount of precipitation in Hunan this year is about 28% less than the average value of the same period of the previous year. It is the lowest year since the founding of New China. The large-scale backbone reservoirs of Dongjiang, Caoxi, Jiangyan, Sanbanxi, Wuqiangxi, and Fengtan, which have more hydropower facilities, are all significantly lower than the same level of previous years, and hydroelectric power generation has been severely restricted, which is causing the province An important reason for serious power shortages.

The lack of hydropower has caused the thermal power generation to be in a state of high load power generation, resulting in a sharp increase in the consumption of coal. And this year's nationwide power shortage has caused a tight supply of power coal. For example, coal from Henan and Guizhou Province accounted for half of the province's coal purchased outside the province. However, because of this year's own tense reasons, the above two provinces have taken measures to strictly control the province's coal exports, and originally signed a supply contract. The coal coal plan failed, coupled with the fact that our province was at the end of the northern coal-to-coast transportation, and the cost of coal conversion from other provinces was relatively high, all of which aggravated the pressure and difficulty of power coal supply. By the end of September, the province's coal stocks were only 1.27 million tons, and individual power plants were faced with the dilemma of coal outages, which seriously affected the peak winter electricity supply.

Due to the contradiction between “market coal” and “planned electricity”, the policy-related losses of thermal power companies are serious. As far as Hunan is concerned, almost none of the thermal power companies are profitable, which results in the lack of enthusiasm for thermal power companies to generate electricity.

This year, the country’s macroeconomic controls have tightened monetary policy, coupled with serious losses in thermal power companies. Banks have strict control over thermal power companies’ loans. The credit constraints have caused coal-fired power plants to have serious shortages in buying coal. Some coal-fired power plants want to buy coal to generate electricity but can’t afford to pay for it.

The electricity purchased is also not ideal. From January to September this year, Hunan Province sent 10.1 billion kWh of electricity to outside the province, a year-on-year decrease of 1.37%. Among them, the Three Gorges sent Hunan 5.3 billion kwh of electricity, a year-on-year decrease of 17%. The three tie-lines connecting Hunan Power Grid and other provinces have limited load capacity and the power input channel is seriously hindered. It is difficult for large-scale foreign power transmission to enter Hunan.

The province’s coal power supply and power consumption have been greatly reduced, which has caused the already tight power supply in the province to become “somewhat worse”. From January to September of this year, the province's urban and rural areas once had the phenomenon of multiple power cuts, especially in the rural areas, often blackouts, seriously affecting the normal life of the people and business production, and even affecting the social harmony and stability.

The issue of electricity has become a major economic problem, a major livelihood issue and a major political issue. One day, modern life cannot be separated from electricity. Without electricity, nothing can be done. People's lives must be seriously affected and the entire society will not be able to function properly.

Severe lack of electricity, frequent power cuts, will inevitably bring immeasurable loss and impact to the province. The supply of electricity is almost at its most intense and critical moment.

The provincial coalition and electricity conservation was initiated, and the dilemma of extraordinary power supply during the extraordinary period has aroused the attention of the provincial party committee and the provincial government.

Zhou Qiang, secretary of the Provincial Party Committee and director of the Standing Committee of the Provincial People’s Congress, attached great importance to the issue of power supply. He instructed the province to take all possible measures and go all out to ensure the power supply, ensure the people’s livelihood, and ensure the economy. Operate normally and personally communicate with leaders of key coal-producing provinces for more coal support.

Xu Shousheng, deputy secretary of the provincial party committee and governor of the province, proposed to start with top-level design and make the greatest determination to focus on coal and electricity conservation. He also presided over the provincial government's executive meeting and leading group meeting to study the deployment of coal, electricity, and energy supply. It is required to strengthen the allocation and management of coal in the province to ensure a steady and orderly supply of energy throughout the province.

The decisive decision of the provincial Party committee secretary and governor, and hands-on action, opened the prelude to the province's tough battle to adjust coal and electricity.

Based on a comprehensive analysis of the province’s hydropower and water storage, thermal power and coal storage, and power purchases by other provinces, the provincial party committee and government urgently mobilized and implemented comprehensive measures to take coal and electricity as a top priority, starting from the end of September. High-strength coal conversion and power conservation operations, and cast a full set of strong combination of boxing.

The provincial government has established a high-level coal preparation and lead agency for power conversion. Xu Shousheng, deputy secretary of the provincial party committee and governor of the province, personally leads the team and serves as the leader of the leading group. Yu Laishan, executive deputy governor of the provincial government, serves as the deputy chief of the team and deploys the elite troops. Constitute a leading group for coal conversion and electricity maintenance to fully coordinate the province's coal power production scheduling.

The provincial government also quickly convened a thousand people's meeting on coal-conservation and power-supply, mobilized and deployed, and successively issued seven documents such as “Notice on doing a good job of coal conversion and electricity conservation work”, and signed a coal-mining and power-reservation work with relevant municipal and state governments. Responsibility form and implementation of work responsibilities at all levels.

According to the plan for the adjustment and protection of electricity, the province must complete the task of supplying 20 million tons of coal between October this year and September 2012. This general task has been assigned to various coal-producing cities, counties, cities, and Xiang Coal Group, and it has implemented a specific coal mine.

The provincial government requires that coal companies should supply coal to power plants as required, and send coal to the coal-fired power plants in the province's power grids to exempt coal price adjustment funds. If a large number of unfinished electric coal tasks are accumulated, they must be taken according to law. Necessary administrative measures.

Power companies must complete their power generation tasks on a monthly basis. Without the approval of the provincial government, thermal power enterprises may not stop generating electricity, and the power company may not switch off power. The power plants that have not completed their power generation missions are informed of the province's failure to terminate or cancel their new projects in Hunan for the second year in a row.

The provincial government has allocated 80 million yuan to reward the unified power plants that have completed or exceeded their power generation tasks, and to power companies that have completed or exceeded their outsourcing tasks. For places where no tasks can be accomplished, the provincial government strictly implements the “three hooks”: linking the completion of electric coal tasks with coal mine production licenses, linking with local electricity consumption plans, and linking with fiscal transfer payments.

From mid-October to December, the Provincial Leading Group of Coal Concentration and Electricity Conservation has in-depth inspections of major coal-fired power plants in the province to monitor coal-conserving and electricity-supply work, and has actively helped power plants solve capital, transportation, and coal source problems.

Various departments at all levels work together to form a strong coalition and power guarantee. In the province's coal conversion and power conservation operations, the central government stationed in Xiang, the provincial departments, and the party committees, governments, and financial departments of coal-producing areas set out from their respective functions. Take the initiative to attack, on-site service, to create a good environment for coal and electricity.

In view of the fact that the coal mine enterprises have been handling licenses for a long period of time, coal, land, coal, industry and commerce and other departments have established joint offices, and they have changed their stance to “send cards, etc.” as “sending permits”. With their official seals, they went deep into all key coal-producing cities and counties, simplified the procedures under the premise of ensuring safe production, complying with state regulations, and basic administrative procedures, and dealt with relevant licenses on behalf of coal mining enterprises on a case-to-house basis.

The coal and safety supervision departments insisted on both the adjustment of coal, power and production safety, and insisted on the bottom line of safe production while supervising the production of coal. The coal mines that did not meet the conditions of safe production, lack of permits, or expired licenses did not issue coal. Power protection indicators.

The quality supervision department dispatched technical personnel to implement factory supervision, promptly mediate quality disputes, and effectively curb illegal activities such as doping and falsifying, and reducing the price of goods, and reducing prices.

The price department issued a price policy in a timely manner, reduced or exempted some of the fees, adjusted and adjusted the on-grid tariffs, and reduced the burden on thermal power companies.

The Provincial Development and Reform Commission supervised and promoted the smooth commissioning of two 660,000 kilowatt units in Phase 1 of Baoqing Power Plant, actively coordinated the start-up of Huaneng Yueyang Phase III Unit 6, and stepped up the development of the Central Coal Transportation Channel—the heavy load from Mengxi to “Two Lakes and One River”. Coal special railway construction work.

Traffic, highways, traffic police and other departments shall open up “green channels” for electric coal transportation vehicles and guarantee priority traffic. No penalty, no buckle, no unloading will be provided.

The provincial power company has increased the degree of power purchased outside the province, strengthened scientific dispatching, and increased power supply with every possible means. This year, it has accumulatively purchased electricity from outside the province by 14.2 billion kwh, and scientifically improved the utilization efficiency of hydropower.

The Supervisory Commission actively coordinated the transportation power limitation problem of the linking line of the Hunan-Jiangsi Province, and timely restored the transportation capability of the Three Gorges-Xianggxiang Power Line to a normal level, and the amount of electricity delivered to Hunan was appropriately increased.

In order to ease the "electric coal shortage" in Hunan Province, Guangzhou Railway Group also tried its best to help them, and requested that priority be given to electric coal, prioritized shipments, and preferential passage. Since October, Guangzhou Railway Zhuzhou Locomotive Depot and Zhuzhou North Station have worked together to ensure the safe transportation of more than 320 electric coal vehicles every day, injecting a “hard power” for coal conversion and energy conservation.

In order to ease the difficulty of power coal, the financial department adopted a flexible policy to send emergency funds for thermal power companies. The provincial Construction Bank has included coal power as a priority list. This year, it has issued a total of 5.5 billion yuan in loans to 12 large-scale thermal power enterprises in the province, including RMB 2.5 billion in new pure coal purchase loans.

The Provincial Department of Supervision increased the investigation and accountability, timely interviewed the work lagging units, urged the local government to step up the completion of the coal task, and fully utilized performance management measures to increase the assessment of the work of adjusting coal and electricity.

The departments of finance, finance, land, and taxation are all actively providing all-round quality services for the adjustment of coal and electricity.

Party committees and governments at all levels strictly follow the province's goal of adjusting coal and electricity, strengthen leadership, implement responsibilities, and do real work, using iron means and measures to ensure that all tasks of coal conversion and power conservation are implemented.

Coal and electricity companies have made moves, and coal inventories have steadily climbed. With the order of coal and electricity conservation, various coal-fired production companies, power generation and grid companies have taken actions and launched an unprecedented operation of coal production, coal conversion, and electricity conservation. It has set off an unprecedented new wave of coal, coal, and electricity purchases.

The province's coal mining enterprises, under the premise of ensuring safety, scientifically organize production and strive to tap potential and increase production. From October 1 to December 22 this year, the province’s coal mines sent 4,705,400 tons of electric coal to the provincial power plants to release provincial plans for the province. 103.12% of the indicator.

Xiang Coal Group completed the task of adjusting and protecting coal electricity at each stage issued by the provincial government on time, by quality, and beyond. On October 24, after receiving an urgent directive from the provincial government requesting an additional 200,000 tons of coal to be added to Yiyang Power Plant, the group company worked overtime on the day and decomposed overnight. On the 27th, it started the addition of new coal to Yiyang Power Plant. The supply has achieved the implementation of the provincial government's coal conversion and power conservation directives overnight.

Huaneng Yueyang Power Plant put social responsibility first, and persisted in the enterprise creed of “There is no coal, there is no virtue, and no coal is suspended.” More than 90% of the coal produced by the plant comes from outside the province. For some time, coal is used to find someone else to borrow coal; when the coal is adjusted, the railway cannot go through, and it takes waterways to divert coal from “Haijinjiang”, no matter how difficult it is. Every effort has been made to overcome difficulties and ensure more coal and more power generation.

Huadian Changsha Power Plant actively sought the support of Huadian Group, urgently transferred coal from Shanxi, Shaanxi, Henan, and other places to Hunan, and transferred 3.3 million tons of coal annually. At present, the coal stocks amount to 430,000 tons, which can protect power plants for about one and a half months. The plant also made full use of its advantages near the Xiangjiang River and transferred 79.65 million tons of high-quality electric coal to countries such as North Korea, Indonesia, and Russia through the “Haijin River”.

Although Guoyang Yiyang Power Plant has no local coal, and has suffered huge losses, the plant has to provide reliable power supply and save it at cost. Since October, the company has transferred a total of 1.43 million tons of coal, effectively ensuring the unit's demand for coal for power generation, and coal inventories have risen from 100,000 tons in early October to 526,400 tons.

Datang Hunan Branch requested that the five power plants in Xiangtan, Zhuzhou, Xiangyang, Shimen, and Jinzhushan be designated to locate, fix, and station mines, and urge coal mines in the province to implement the tasks of coal conversion and power conservation. At the same time, coal resources such as Xinjiang and Gansu were opened, and exploration and purchase of a number of imported petroleum coke were trial burned to reduce the pressure on electric coal.

With the joint efforts of coal companies and thermal power companies, the province's coal inventories have risen steadily. While satisfying the coal-fired power generation of coal-fired power generation units, the coal stock increased rapidly by more than 20,000 tons per day. After reaching 3 million tons at the beginning of December, it continued to climb to 3.6 million tons.

The long-term adjustment of coal reserves and power, and redouble their efforts to slack off 3.6 million tons of coal stocks, this hard-won result.

This is a phased victory in the work of adjusting coal and electricity, not only rapidly reversing the strained electricity situation in our province, but also ensuring that there are no blackouts in the province’s urban and rural areas since October, and it also protects the “two sessions” and “two meetings” period. The stable supply of electricity has laid a solid foundation. The provincial government will hold a summary and commendation conference for the first phase of the province's coal conversion and electricity conservation in early January 2012, and resolutely implement the reward and punishment measures in accordance with government regulations.

At the same time, we should also be soberly aware that the road to coal conversion and power conservation is still very long. This is just a beginning. The difficulties and problems we face in the future are still great. The task is still very arduous and there is no reason to be proud of it.

According to the traditional practice, during the Spring Festival in our province, coal mines will be subject to large-scale holidays and production suspension. In the 10 days before the Spring Festival and within 15 days after the Spring Festival, the supply of coal in the province may be greatly reduced, which will have a greater impact on the electricity coal inventory and power supply after the Spring Festival.

From the perspective of hydropower, our province is in a dry period in winter and there are several months away from the rainy season after April next year, and hydropower development cannot hold much hope.

From the perspective of redeployment of coal, at the end of the year, when the northern part of the country enters the cold winter, heating coal consumption soars and coal will be more nervous from the north.

From the perspective of capacity, the country is about to enter the Spring Festival, regardless of the railway, highway cargo transportation will be reduced to a certain extent, which will directly affect the province's coal transportation and electricity supply.

From the point of view of electricity demand, during the Spring Festival, it is the peak of heating and lighting for urban and rural residents. The residential electricity load will maintain a high level for a long period of time. Now the maximum load has exceeded 17 million kilowatts, and it may break through during the “two festivals”. 20 million kilowatts.

From the perspective of thermal power equipment, the unit may experience erratic output for a long period of high-load operation. On the human factor, long-term high-intensity coal-control and power-retention may cause exhaustion of energy. In coal mines, safety production pressure is also high.

The superposition of a variety of factors will put tremendous pressure on the province during the Spring Festival and even next year's coal-diversion and electricity-supply work. These will not allow us to relax our efforts.

To this end, we must always keep a clear head and fully see the long-term, arduous, and complicated nature of coal-conservation and electricity-supply work. We must continue to regard coal-diversion and power-supply protection as our top priorities, and work harder and harder. In the end, the new goal set by the provincial party committee and the provincial government to ensure that the entire province's urban and rural areas will not stop power cuts will continue to advance.