"All air-conditioners are below 20 degrees Celsius", are all "uniform" still called "advocacy"?
Talk about Fengsheng
It is good for ordinary people and ordinary enterprises to advocate saving electricity, but it is necessary to prevent the initiative from becoming mandatory and damaging their legitimate rights.
On December 15th, citizens of Changsha, Hunan reported that there was a phenomenon of power cuts in many districts of Changsha. Residents in many areas climbed to work on the 30th floor because of power cuts. This caused heated discussions among netizens.
The background of the incident is that on December 8, the Changsha Development and Reform Commission issued an orderly electricity use initiative to the citizens, calling for all air-conditioners in the city to be controlled below 20°C and not to use high-energy appliances such as electric stoves and electric ovens.
The staff of the Changsha Power Supply Bureau responded: “It is related to the sudden drop in temperature and the sudden increase in power consumption, and the reserved power consumption index has also exceeded.”
It is understandable that the work of energy saving and emission reduction is refined to the control level of air-conditioning temperature.
The problem is that according to statements such as "all air conditioners in the city are controlled below 20 degrees Celsius", the restrictions on power rationing have long gone beyond the scope of public institutions.
Although it is officially called "advocacy", as many netizens have said, can it be called an "advocacy" if it is "uniform"?
It is not to say that there must be problems with compulsory requirements-it is not wrong to make reasonable compulsory requirements for public institutions and require them to take the lead in energy "dual control", energy conservation and emission reduction.
It just needs to be clear: It is good for ordinary people and ordinary enterprises to advocate saving electricity, but it is necessary to prevent the initiative from becoming mandatory and damaging their legitimate rights.
It is understood that the local initiative has made it clear that during the orderly power usage period, if residents use high-energy-consuming appliances and trips and power failures due to overload, the local area will also conduct intelligent investigations based on the meter data and take measures for the residents who are overloaded with electricity. Implement short-term power supply restrictions.
This is a bit too hard: power supply belongs to the category of infrastructure. Since high-energy-consuming electrical appliances are not prohibited by the law, the people naturally have the right to use them normally.
By restricting the power supply, the public's obligation to cooperate with energy conservation and emission reduction has become a mandatory additional requirement, which is somewhat overcorrected, and in reality it is easy to induce public resistance.
Since it is an initiative, it should be based on appeals.
The decree is too strong, and the proposal is hardened and restrained, and the matter is not very detailed. It is inevitable that there will be doubts about the legitimacy and rationality, and some deviations may occur in reality.
If the initiative clearly requires that "all kinds of industrial and commercial enterprises must obey the dispatch", the Changsha Power Supply Bureau also stated that dozens of units in Wangcheng District, Yuhua District and other districts have been rationed.
Then, the target task pressure of energy conservation and emission reduction, which is transmitted to the grassroots level by level, will affect the normal operation of these industrial and commercial enterprises?
How to make up for its losses?
It’s not surprising that the pressure was transmitted to ordinary people too much, and the people climbed to work on the 30th floor because of the power cut.
On the other hand, there are huge difficulties in specific implementation.
For example, how to supervise and identify citizens whose air conditioner is above 20°C?
This is not to deny the original intention of the initiative, but to remind the relevant localities and departments to do good things and guide the society to change the electricity consumption habits. Government departments should not be too strong and implicitly restrict residents' electricity consumption across the board.
To put it bluntly, it is a good thing to implement energy-saving and emission-reduction initiatives for the whole society, but even if it is necessary to restrict electricity use, it should also focus on public institutions and require them to take the lead in enforcing energy-saving requirements, rather than restricting enterprises and enterprises too much. The legitimate rights of the people.
□Xiong Zhi (media person)