The urgency of burning "coal" on a Shanxi coal ticket
The coal ticket has appeared again. With the ticket, clean coal can be purchased at a government subsidy price at the supply point. The "civil coal ticket" issued by the bureau is now hard currency.
In the past 14 days, entrusted by the Energy Bureau of Ying County, the fleet of Shanxi Jingwei Tongda Co., Ltd. went to 22 coal mines in the three counties of Shanyin, Huairen, and Pinglu in Shuozhou City. Before the arrival of deep winter, 20,000 tons of clean coal for heating were raised for more than 20,000 farmers in Yingxian County.
The difficulty exceeded the company's general manager Hao Jianying's expectations.
"(If) no matter how many passers-by go to run at the same time, it is estimated that by the first half of next year (also) will not be finished." Even if they are running long, they have only purchased less than 7,000 tons of clean coal so far, which is far from the total of 20,000 tons. .
Just after the "light snow" solar term in the lunar calendar, the average temperature in Yingxian County outside the Great Wall has already dropped below zero degrees Celsius.
Yingxian’s plan is to allow more than 20,000 farmers who have not undergone “coal-to-electricity” and other clean heating methods to transition by burning clean coal.
This group accounts for about half of the farmers in the county.
According to a data provided by the Energy Bureau of Shuozhou to a reporter from China Youth Daily and China Youth Daily, this winter, there were 62,144 households in Shuozhou who needed to issue clean coal at a subsidized price. As of November 21, 47,393 households had been distributed. A total of 56901 tons of coal tickets are issued, and the issuance rate is 76.3%.
Among them, the distribution rate of Shanyin, Youyu, Pinglu, Shuocheng and other places have reached or exceeded 100%. The lowest is the non-coal-producing Yingxian, which should have distributed 21,400 households and 5795 households, accounting for only 27.1%.
To be clean and warm
Shuozhou is one of the three cities in Shanxi Province that has declared for the "2021 Winter Clean Heating Project in Northern China". The implementation of this clean heating project aims to reduce carbon emissions and control air pollution.
According to the plan, Shuozhou will invest 6.451 billion yuan in the next three years to implement clean heating renovations for 223,400 urban and rural residents.
Among them, 900 million yuan of special subsidies from the central government.
The transformation methods include "coal to electricity" and "coal to gas". The plan is that by the heating season of 2023, the urban, county and rural areas "clean heating rate will basically reach 100%."
Based on this, Yingxian formulated the "Clean Heating Work Plan for the Winter of 2021-2023". One of the measures is to provide clean coal at subsidized prices to farmers who have not undergone coal-to-electricity, biomass boiler installation and other clean heating methods this winter. .
Since the beginning of this year, affected by factors such as rising prices of international bulk energy raw materials, coal supply and demand have been "tight".
In some places, there have even been power cuts.
At the end of September, the National Development and Reform Commission stated that my country's coal production and supply and emergency support capabilities have been greatly improved. By further increasing production, increasing imports, using reserve resources and social stocks, coal supply is guaranteed.
In places like Yingxian County, efforts are being made to provide winter heating.
The person in charge of the county’s energy bureau told the China Youth Daily and China Youth Daily that in order to ensure that residents stay warm during the winter, under the coordination of Shuozhou, the coal enterprises in the three counties of Shanyin, Pinglu, and Huairen adopted the “coaling coal” approach. Method, at a price of 450 yuan per ton, 20,000 tons of clean coal will be deployed for Yingxian County.
Jingwei Tongda Company is a high-quality coal storage and distribution enterprise designated by Shuozhou City, and is entrusted by Ying County Energy Bureau to be responsible for clean coal procurement and deployment.
Hao Jianying's team is responsible for docking more than 30 coal mines in 3 counties.
"There are 13 mines in Shanyin County, and each mine is given a few hundred tons. After this batch is completed, how many times do you want to go through?" He said, every time I go to the mine to deploy clean coal, at least four or five For personal phone calls, ask for the chairman, general manager, and sales and mine manager to sign one by one.
He told reporters that coal prices have been adjusting recently and have fallen from a high level, but they are still higher than the same period last year.
The price of clean coal coordinated by the government is low, but the standards are different, and purchase agreements need to be signed one by one. Some coal mines have only production rights but no sales rights. They need to be submitted for approval and go through the process, which is quite a lot of work.
The most troublesome thing is that these local clean coals are all pulverized coal, which is not suitable for farmers to use for cleaning and heating. It has "low calorific value, high ash content, and cannot be burned."
In this regard, the relevant person in charge of the Energy Bureau of Yingxian County also said, "All the coal is pulled back, and the heat is not good and cannot be used. It can be used only when it is replaced with lump coal."
"This coal is also up to standard, (but) ordinary people can't or cannot burn it," the person in charge said.
Jingwei Tongda can only store the "clean coal" that is "unburnable" and temporarily "unsellable" in the company park, and then send people to Inner Mongolia to add money to buy high-calorie lump coal.
"This is not trade. As a private enterprise, we must fulfill our social responsibilities. The government has entrusted us to do this work. Now it is to advance money (doing)." Hao Jianying said that for the sake of openness and transparency, he purchased electronic records. The instrument is used for on-site recording of coal pulling, testing, unloading, sampling and other processes.
"The government has subsidized 5 million yuan for the deployment of clean coal, but it is not even enough to buy coal in those 3 counties." Hao Jianying said that the price of local coal and Inner Mongolia coal is very different. 1450 yuan per ton, the price difference is huge.
In terms of calorific value, the calorific value of coal in Inner Mongolia can reach 6000 kcal, while the highest coal purchased from local is 4900 kcal.
According to the relevant person in charge of the County Energy Bureau, the coal price in the same period in previous years was 600 to 700 yuan per ton. This year it reached 2,300 yuan when it was at its high level, and now it costs more than 1,300 yuan per ton.
In accordance with the existing clean heating policy, for rural areas not covered by the renovation, the village statistics report to the township government. The township government lists the distribution list, which is subsidized by the county and district financial funds. Farmers buy clean coal at a unit price of 500 yuan per ton.
"Just like the old food stamps, you can buy coal at a nearby clean coal supply point with a coal ticket, and enjoy a preferential policy of no more than 500 yuan per ton." A staff member of the Shuozhou Energy Bureau said during the distribution. In the event that the progress cannot be kept up, the residents can also pull the transportation by themselves with the ticket.
According to the Energy Bureau of Yingxian County, there are more than 48,000 residents in rural areas of the county, of which more than 17,000 have completed the installation of "coal-to-electricity" facilities; more than 3,300 residents have adopted biomass boilers for heating, which are all clean heating renovation measures. .
There are still more than 20,000 households that have not been renovated, and these households will transition by burning clean coal for heating.
"Coal to electricity", no electricity yet
However, in addition to the failure to distribute clean coal, another clean heating transformation task, the progress of the coal-to-electricity project is not smooth.
Recently, reporters from China Youth Daily and China Youth Daily visited Shijiafang, Dahuangwei, Dongxinzhai, Dasui Min, Xiaosui Min and other villages in Yingxian County.
Except for Xiaosuimin Village, the coal-to-electricity facilities in other villages have basically been installed, but they are in a shutdown state and have not yet been powered on.
In these villages, most people hoard a large amount of corncobs and firewood picked up. They rely on burning wood, corncobs and coal stored in previous years for cooking and heating.
"This year, coal is not good enough (in dialect, that is not good), buy less, not buy too much. The pole of'Coal to Electricity' is set up, and if there is no electricity, it will burn jade zizania (in dialect, corncob). ).” A 72-year-old farmer in Shijiafang village told reporters that every family in the village grows corn, mainly using firewood and corn cobs. Although it is not tolerant to burning, it is enough for cooking on kang.
Several villagers present also said that although coal-to-electricity facilities were installed in their homes, they were never connected to electricity and could not be used.
These facilities include a low ambient temperature air source heat pump heater, two direct heating electric heaters and an induction cooker.
Everyone said that it hasn’t been cold enough recently. Although there are more or less scattered coal from last year’s burning in the house, they are not willing to use it for heating. “Coal is expensive this year. Burn again."
In a family in Dahuangwei Village, Dahuangwei Township, a reporter from China Youth Daily and China Youth Daily saw that coal-to-electricity facilities had been installed and there was no electricity.
In order to keep warm and cook, the family used wooden planks to build two sheds two to three meters high and one person high to store corncobs and firewood.
The staff of Dahuang Wei Township government told reporters that Dahuang Wei Township has completed the coal-to-electricity project in 8 villages.
Xiaosuiren Village, Jincheng Town, has not yet implemented the coal-to-electricity project. Villagers have piled up piles of firewood in front of their houses as early as possible.
A villager in Wangyan Village, Xingzhai Township, said that as early as June, he had paid 800 yuan for coal-to-electricity-related expenses in accordance with the village's notice, but he has not installed it so far.
Procurement while sending coal
In response to the above problems, the relevant staff of the Shuozhou Energy Bureau said that the coal-to-electricity project in Shuozhou started late in early October, and there is indeed a delay.
Because the line reconstruction of the Shuozhou branch of Shanxi Local Electric Power Co., Ltd. needs to be completed by the end of November, it cannot be used temporarily.
According to information provided by the Shuozhou Energy Bureau, as of November 18, 46 villages in Shuozhou have not yet completed the conversion of coal to electricity, and they are stepping up.
Regarding the supply of clean coal, the staff member said that Shuozhou's coal has a low overall calorific value and a large sulfur content.
The clean coal standard requires that the sulfur content should not be higher than 1%, and the ash content should not be higher than 16%. Except for several coal mines in Pinglu District that can be washed by themselves, coal production is better, and coal in other counties such as Shanyin and Huairen Tensions are mainly about buying clean coal from Inner Mongolia and Shaanxi.
"So you have to let other counties provide it (Yingxian), and there is no coal."
He said that coal prices have been declining. For residents who were not included in the clean heating renovation plan this year and temporarily unavailable after the renovation, the municipal government requires each household to allocate 3 tons of clean coal. Because the coal source is relatively tight, 1 ton will be sent first. Purchasing at the same time, "Suozhou is currently using the city's efforts to ensure clean and heating work in winter."
The staff member also said that the economy of Yingxian County is dominated by agriculture, and there are more biomass fuels such as corn cobs.
In addition, there are many people raising carts in this county. There are often several local people who pull coal from Inner Mongolia and use them separately. The market supervision and administration bureaus have all conducted random checks on these coals, and they are completely up to the standard.
The person in charge of the Energy Bureau of Yingxian County said that the actual number of farmers in the county who need clean coal is currently large, and the total amount may require more than 30,000 tons.
For those farmers who are facing the urgency of burning "coal", what they look forward to most is energy supply.
Clean coal and cold air are still on the way.
According to data from the Public Meteorological Service Center of the China Meteorological Administration, the local climate is cold, and the temperature in January is usually minus 9°C to 10°C.
China Youth Daily · China Youth Daily reporter Hu Zhizhong Source: China Youth Daily