Small coal plants face shutdown

(Shanghai Daily)
Updated: 2007-01-30 14:40

皇冠体育app 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.