Ministry of Environmental Protection: Ultra-Low Emissions Reform in the Iron and Steel Industry "under study"

Low-emission steel industry transformation has begun to study, when appropriate, the Ministry of Environmental Protection Department of Atmospheric Pollution Prevention will introduce. January 31, the MEP routine press conference, Ministry of Environmental Protection spokesman Liu Youbin told reporters.

The so-called ultra-low emissions, refers to the coal-fired boilers in the operation and end of the process of governance, the use of a variety of pollutants efficient synergistic removal of integrated system technology, the concentration of air pollutants emissions basically meet the gas unit emission limits to achieve clean production s level.

Earlier, after the launch of ultra-low-emission electric power industry, the relevant agencies estimated that the market size released reached more than 40 billion yuan. In September 2014, the NDRC, the Ministry of Environmental Protection and the Bureau of Energy proposed an action plan to upgrade and remediate coal-fired power plants. In December 2015, the Tariffs for Electricity Price was clarified. Subsequently, the market was detonated, and a large number of projects were released.

Data show that the national coal-fired generating units have now completed a total of 700 million kilowatts of ultra-low emission reconstruction, accounting for 71% of coal-fired power generation capacity in our country has established the world's largest clean coal system, the coal industry for China's air pollution Prevention and control made a great contribution. "Liu Youbin said.