China News Service, Dongying, September 8 (Reporter Sha Jianlong) Pile foundation pile sinking, wind turbine hoisting, and huge construction ships are intensively constructed... At present, the Bozhong Offshore Wind Power Site A project is progressing in an orderly manner. This is Shandong Energy One of the regional projects of the Bozhong Offshore Wind Power Project, located in the central Bohai Sea, 20 kilometers away from the coastline of Dongying, is the first one of the three offshore wind power bases planned and laid out in Shandong, the first to be approved and the first to start construction.

  In recent years, in order to deepen the conversion of old and new kinetic energy and explore the path of transformation and development, Shandong has accelerated the development of new energy resources and the development of new energy equipment manufacturing industry, and has planned and laid out three offshore wind power bases in Bozhong, South Peninsula and North Peninsula.

A few days ago, the State Council issued a document to support Shandong in building a tens of millions of kilowatts of deep-sea offshore wind power bases.

The picture shows the processing equipment of Unipec.

Photo by Sha Jianlong

  According to the plan, the Bozhong Offshore Wind Power Site A project will build 60 wind turbines with a single unit capacity of 8.35 MW, with a total installed capacity of 501 MW.

After completion, it will become the largest single-scale intelligent and digital wind farm in China, with an annual power generation capacity of 1.7 billion kWh, an annual saving of about 519,000 tons of standard coal, and a reduction of carbon, sulfur dioxide, and nitrogen oxide emissions by about 1.25 million tons, 9000 tons and 13800 tons, while reducing a lot of ash and dust emissions.

  According to Liu Xiaofeng, Vice President of Dongying Branch of Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, the total investment of the project is estimated to be 6.685 billion yuan (RMB, the same below), and the part other than self-raised funds will be financed through syndicated loans.

In order to ensure the progress of the project construction, the branch and Jinan branch actively connected with the project team, and completed the business approval of the exclusive project loan of 2 billion yuan as soon as possible. So far, a total of 1.231 billion yuan of loans have been issued.

The picture shows the main control room of Unipec.

Various production links and safety factors are clearly displayed on the big screen.

Photo by Sha Jianlong

  Liu Xiaofeng told reporters that in recent years, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Dongying Branch has continued to increase its support for low-carbon industries around the four main lines of low-carbon, zero-carbon, carbon-reduction, and negative-carbon. , the disclosed loan-driven carbon dioxide emission reduction amounted to 3.86 million tons.

Up to now, the bank's green loan balance has exceeded 7.64 billion yuan, an increase of 4.483 billion yuan or 142% over the beginning of the year.

  Dongying, Shandong is the rise of Shengli Oilfield, China's second largest oil industry base, and the oil-led heavy chemical industry accounts for a large proportion of the regional economy.

As the main enterprise of the "chain-length system" industrial chain in Shandong Province and the leading enterprise in the transformation of new and old kinetic energy in the petrochemical field of Dongying, Dongying United Petrochemical has led the green transformation through fine chemicals in recent years.

In 2021, the company's operating income will be 25.9 billion yuan, net profit will be 690 million yuan, and tax payment will be 2.36 billion yuan.

  Zhang Jun, head of the Finance and Financing Department of Unipec, told reporters that due to the complexity and particularity of international crude oil trade and exchange rate fluctuations, the time limit for the issuance of crude oil import letters of credit is very critical. If the issuance cannot be completed in time, the company will face delivery delays. Port dues risk.

Zheshang Bank Dongying Branch successfully handled a crude oil import business of US$31.1 million for it by using the method of "Import Letter of Credit + Import Bill Advance + Forward Foreign Exchange Purchase", meeting the short-term financing needs of the enterprise.

  According to statistics, since 2022, Zheshang Bank Dongying Branch has accumulated more than US$45 million in settlements for key petrochemical enterprises in Dongying, including Unipec, through the above model.

At the same time, the bank has continuously increased the issuance of green financial loans in response to the transformation of new and old kinetic energy of enterprises and the upgrading of the industrial chain. As of now, the balance of various green loan financing is 331 million yuan.

  Dongying Huayuan New Energy Co., Ltd. is a new energy enterprise that processes more than 220,000 tons of domestic waste annually, with an income of more than 70 million yuan and a profit of more than 20 million yuan.

Relying on the self-developed domestic waste environmental protection power generation technology, the company can process more than 600 tons of domestic waste every day, which is converted into more than 75 million kilowatt-hours of electricity every year, allowing thousands of households to live a "green life".

Wei Yonglong, head of Huayuan New Energy, said that the company's smooth operation also benefited from the help of banking institutions.

  Wei Yonglong said that in the second half of 2021, there will be a funding gap of more than 8 million yuan for enterprises affected by various factors.

Corporate loan demand is hampered by a lack of suitable collateral and guarantee companies.

Kenli Rural Commercial Bank started with the company's "garbage disposal right" to help enterprises solve financing problems, and issued a loan of 10 million yuan to the enterprise in just one week. This is also the first "garbage disposal right" pledged loan in the rural commercial bank system .

Up to now, the bank has issued 19 green loans totaling 100.48 million yuan.

  The reporter learned from the Dongying Banking and Insurance Regulatory Bureau that in recent years, the bureau has guided the banking institutions in its jurisdiction to increase credit issuance for green projects such as clean energy, energy conservation and environmental protection, and innovate financial products and services. , to meet the diversified financing needs of green industries.

As of the end of June 2022, the green credit balance in the jurisdiction was 29 billion yuan, an increase of 9.2 billion yuan or 46.7% over the beginning of the year.

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