Small coal plants face shutdown
(Shanghai Daily)
Updated: 2007-01-30 14:40 China will close many small
power generating units, which now produce more than 10 percent of the country's
electricity, said Vice Premier Zeng Peiyan in Beijing yesterday at a conference
on energy conservation and emission reduction.
Small power generating units around the country consume 400 million tons of
coal while emitting 5.4 million tons of sulfur dioxide and producing 115 million
kilowatt-hours a year, Zeng said. Over the next four years, more than half the
power that comes from small generating units, about 60 million kilowatts, will
be turned off.
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