35 iron and steel enterprises in Hebei have reached the A level
The Hebei Provincial Department of Ecology and Environment recently held a press conference on "Comprehensively Promoting the Environmental Performance of Enterprises in Key Industries to Create A". The reporter learned from the meeting that the environmental performance of A has become an important symbol of Hebei Province's comprehensive green transformation and acceleration of high-quality development.
In 2023, Hebei Province will add 40 A-level enterprises with environmental protection performance, bringing the total number to 76, including 35 iron and steel enterprises, ranking first in the country; There are 13 coking enterprises, 15 cement enterprises, 5 flat glass enterprises, 1 architectural ceramics enterprise, 5 thermal power enterprises, and 2 waste-to-energy enterprises.
Strengthen the guidance of standards, and introduce 353 specific indicators in 8 aspects
It is an important decision made by the Hebei Provincial Party Committee and the Provincial Government to focus on the actual development of Hebei Province to carry out environmental protection performance in key industries such as iron and steel and coking. Grade A of environmental protection performance, representing the best level of environmental protection governance in the same industry. Enterprises rated as A-level can take emission reduction measures independently during the emergency response period of heavily polluted weather, and do not stop production or limit production.
What are the criteria for achieving an A grade in environmental performance? In response to this problem, Hebei Province has strengthened the guidance of standards and promoted the work of creating a high quality of environmental protection performance.
"Hebei Province has formulated and introduced a standard for creating A by industry, including 353 specific indicators in 8 aspects: equipment level, digital intelligent manufacturing, organized emissions, unorganized emissions, energy conservation and carbon reduction, monitoring and monitoring level, environmental management level and clean transportation." Bai Yu, head of the comprehensive coordination group of the Hebei Provincial Department of Ecology and Environment, introduced that among the seven key industries, the indicators of the steel, coking and thermal power industries have reached the leading domestic and international advanced levels; The main indicators of cement, building ceramics and flat glass industry have reached the international advanced level, and other indicators have reached the domestic leading level; The indicators of the waste-to-energy industry have reached the leading level in China.
After the introduction of these standards, Hebei Province carried out a review and evaluation and "retrospective" of the enterprises rated as A before 2022, adjusted the ratings of the two cement companies that found problems, and one company was downgraded to B in environmental performance, and one was downgraded to early warning.
What kind of technology can be used to meet such emission standards?
For the key industries of ChuangA, Hebei Province has comprehensively sorted out 112 pollution control and energy-saving and carbon-reduction technologies, and formed the best practical technical guidelines to recommend to ChuangA enterprises. At the same time, the establishment of a team of experts, the formation of a technical assistance group by industry, enterprise by enterprise to guide the preparation of "one enterprise, one policy" to create a program, up to now, Hebei Province technical assistance group into the enterprise to help more than 500 people, to help rectify more than 2,000 problems.
Adhere to positive incentives and formulate a series of support and assistance measures
In order to stimulate the endogenous power of enterprises to create A, Hebei Province has formulated and issued several policies and measures to support the environmental protection performance of key industries, and introduced corresponding support policies from the aspects of science and technology, environmental protection, finance and taxation, and green credit.
On this basis, Hebei Province has also formulated a series of personalized incentive policies according to the characteristics of various industries, such as differentiated electricity prices for ultra-low emissions of steel, and a series of personalized incentive policies such as reduction and exemption of off-peak kiln shutdown days for cement A-level enterprises.
"Focusing on the implementation of the policies that have been introduced, we have established a 'service through train' mechanism, through the establishment of a WeChat group, the chairman and general manager of the province's key industry A-level enterprises, the mayor of the relevant municipal government, the mayor in charge, the main responsible comrades and responsible comrades of the provincial and municipal ecological environment departments are invited to join the group, providing 'point-to-point' all-weather service, and the enterprises can put forward relevant problems at any time, and the provincial departments and cities will classify and dispose of the problems raised by the enterprises and reply within a limited time to help them solve their doubts and solve problems." Liu Yunyun, head of the policy project team of the Hebei Provincial Department of Ecology and Environment, said.
In order to protect the legitimate rights and interests of A-level enterprises and smooth the channels for reflecting problems, Hebei Province has also set up a key industry environmental performance A-level enterprise policy fulfillment reporting telephone, and the staff on duty will answer it 24 hours a day, accept the report as soon as possible, organize the investigation team to carry out verification, reply to the handling situation within a week, and seriously investigate and deal with the non-implementation of the policy once verified.
In addition, Hebei Province also organized banks such as the Provincial Construction Bank, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, Bank of China, Bank of Communications and China Development Bank to carry out point-to-point services and face-to-face guidance for start-up enterprises, publicize loan policies, and meet financing needs. The Hebei Provincial Department of Ecology and Environment, together with the Provincial Local Financial Supervision Bureau, held two government-bank-enterprise matchmaking meetings, and 7 banks reached cooperation intentions with 93 A-A enterprises, with a credit line of 78 billion yuan and loans of 44.6 billion yuan; Innovatively carried out loans for the mortgage of emission rights, and 8 A-A enterprises obtained loan credit of 6 billion yuan, and actually issued 780 million yuan.
Promote green transformation, improve the level of pollution control, and reduce pollution emissions
As of December 25, 2023, there are 35 iron and steel enterprises in Hebei Province rated as A-level in environmental performance, ranking first in the country, which has strongly promoted the green transformation and high-quality development of the steel industry.
"Ultra-low emission transformation is a necessary prerequisite for iron and steel enterprises to create A. The 14 new A-grade iron and steel enterprises in Hebei Province in 2023 will reduce the total emissions of particulate matter, sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides by about 2,800 tons, 2,600 tons and 5,200 tons respectively compared with 2021 through ultra-low emission transformation. Hebei Provincial Department of Ecology and Environment to create a special class technical support steel industry group leader Liu Limin said that the control of carbon monoxide emissions is an important focus to further improve ambient air quality, in the promotion of A, Hebei Province steel industry refinement and improvement of carbon monoxide control measures. The "A-level Standard for Environmental Performance of Key Industries in Hebei Province (Trial)" proposes a number of carbon monoxide control measures such as internal circulation of flue gas of sintering machine head and purification and recovery of blast furnace gas, and actively promotes the implementation of iron and steel enterprises. Through the in-depth optimization of carbon monoxide control measures for sintering machines in iron and steel enterprises, the concentration of carbon monoxide emissions in the flue gas of sintering machine heads has generally decreased by about 30%.
By comprehensively carrying out the work of creating a class of environmental protection performance, the iron and steel industry in Hebei Province has not only improved the level of pollution prevention and control, but also further promoted the renewal of backward equipment and optimized the clean mode of transportation.
It is understood that the step-by-step sintering machine in the steel industry is a low-efficiency, high-energy-consumption, and high-polluting process and equipment. On the one hand, it has strictly supervised the environmental protection of the step-by-step sintering machine in use, realized the full flue gas networking of the cooling section, and implemented the sintering machine head emission standard management with reference to the implementation; On the other hand, to help iron and steel enterprises to speed up the transformation and upgrading of step-by-step sintering machine project EIA approval procedures, at present, the province's 7 parent process iron and steel enterprises EIA procedures have been completed, step-by-step sintering machine elimination has taken substantial steps.
In optimizing the mode of clean transportation, Hebei Province focuses on promoting the standardized construction of transit yards or logistics parks, combined with the short-distance transfer of electric heavy trucks, to accelerate the solution of the problem of insufficient long-distance clean transportation capacity of iron and steel enterprises, and open up the "last mile" of clean transportation; At the same time, we will continue to increase the proportion of pure electric and fuel cell vehicles used in the transportation vehicles in the factory, and the special transportation machinery such as non-road mobile machinery and suction and exhaust vehicles in the factory will adopt new energy in principle. In 2023, 14 new steel A-level enterprises in Hebei Province will newly put into use more than 1,500 electric heavy trucks and hydrogen energy heavy trucks, and purchase more than 270 electric loaders and electric forklifts.
"In the next step, we will continue to do a good job in policy innovation, in terms of law enforcement and supervision, technology research and development, commendation and publicity, etc., deeply tap the potential of policies, strengthen market orientation, innovate the use of environmental elements such as emission rights to carry out green financing, and fully support enterprises to create A." Bai Yu introduced that in accordance with the overall idea of quality first, enterprise voluntary, policy support, and joint promotion, Hebei Province will classify and implement precise policies, encourage the first to try, pay attention to typical guidance, and further promote the high standard and high-quality development of the work of creating A.
