Punitive electricity prices in China for enterprises with energy consumption exceeding energy consumption standards

Xinhua Beijing, May 5, the State Council May 4 issued a notice on further efforts to ensure the realization of "Eleven-Five" energy-saving emission reduction targets, the Chinese government network published the full text of the notice today.　　The notice calls for a punitive price policy for companies that consume more energy than existing national and local unit limits on energy consumption (power consumption). The notice requests to strengthen the use of energy management effectively. In order to strengthen the tracking and monitoring of comprehensive energy consumption, energy consumption in high energy consuming industries and the output of high energy consuming products in various regions, we should control the energy supply rationally and change the phenomenon of energy supply and unrestrained use of power in the area of high power consuming industry. We will vigorously promote energy-saving power generation dispatching, strengthen DSM, formulate and implement ordered power consumption plan, and, while ensuring reasonable demand for electricity consumption, should compress high energy consumption and high emission enterprises. For energy consumption exceeding the existing national and local units of energy consumption (power consumption) limit standard, the imposition of punitive price policy, specifically by the provincial government departments to advise. The provincial energy-saving department organizes energy-saving supervision organizations at all levels to conduct special energy surveillance audits on energy consumption of major products in the previous year and the first half of this year before the end of June of this year, put forward the super energy consumption (power) limit standard of enterprises and products list, the imposition of punitive electricity price, over the limit of more than one times, In comparison with the elimination of tariff increases standard implementation. Strengthen the city lighting management, strictly control the utility and the decorative landscape lighting energy consumption of large buildings.