The country adopts comprehensive measures to regulate coal and electricity prices

In order to promote economic restructuring, energy conservation and emission reduction, and ensure power supply, the National Development and Reform Commission recently issued a notice to implement interim price intervention measures for coal for power generation (hereinafter referred to as “electric coal”) and adjust electricity prices appropriately. , Try the ladder price system.

The first is to implement temporary price intervention on coal. Properly control the contract coal price increase, and stipulate that the growth rate of contracted coal prices in 2012 must not exceed 5% of the contract price in the previous year. From January 1st, 2012, the maximum price of coal for market transactions is stipulated, and the price of coal for 5,500 kcal main ports in Qinhuangdao and other major ports in the Bohai Rim shall not exceed 800 yuan per ton; the electric coal transported via railways and roads The market transaction price shall not exceed the actual settlement price of the coal production and operation enterprise at the end of April 2011. After the price of coal is basically stable across the country, the National Development and Reform Commission will promptly announce the release of temporary price intervention measures.

The second is to comprehensively clean up and reorganize coal-related funds and fees. Except for funds established according to law, coal-related funds and charging projects set up by local people's governments at or below the provincial level must be cancelled before the end of 2011; provincial governments have established according to law, and the maximum levy is not to exceed 23 yuan per ton, which is lower than The current level of 23 yuan per ton will remain unchanged, and no establishment may be established; all localities shall not distinguish between domestic and foreign coal to collect funds and fees according to different standards.

The third is to raise the price of electricity properly. Since December 1, 2011, the average on-grid tariff for coal-fired power plants nationwide has been increased by approximately 2.6 cents per kilowatt-hour, and the additional renewable energy tariff rate to be levied with the sales price has been increased from 0.4 cents per kilowatt hour to 0.8 cents. Money; a trial of a denitrification electricity price policy for coal-fired power plants that installed and operated a denitrification device, a 0.8-cent increase per kilowatt-hour increase to offset the increase in denitrification costs. The above measures have affected the average sales price of electricity in the country by approximately 3 cents per kilowatt-hour. Residents lived and used electricity to try a ladder-based electricity price system, and 80% of households did not adjust their electricity prices.

The fourth is the trial of residents' ladder price system. The current single-resident electricity price is changed to implement different electricity price standards according to different consumer electricity consumption. The electricity price increases step by step with the increase of electricity consumption. The ladder price to be implemented is divided into three levels, that is, provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) sort the average monthly electricity consumption of local households from low to high, covering the first 80% of the user's electricity as the first file; exceeds the first file and The amount of electricity for the first 95% of the users covered is the second file; the amount of electricity that exceeds the second file is the third file. Among them, the first-order price of electricity has remained basically stable in the near-term and no adjustments have been made. The second-tier electricity price has been appropriately raised, and the third-tier electricity price has been greatly increased. At the same time as the implementation of the ladder-based electricity tariffs, urban and rural residents with minimum guarantees and rural five-guarantees will be provided with free electricity consumption of 10 kWh per month or 15 kWh per household according to economic and social development. The specific plan for the implementation of electricity tariffs for residential electricity consumption in various regions shall be implemented by the provincial-level price administrations after performing price hearing procedures.

In order to protect the policy effect of coal and electricity price control measures, the relevant state agencies will accelerate the release of coal production capacity, increase the supply of coal, especially coal, on the premise of ensuring safe production; strengthen the deployment of railway transportation capacity and give priority to the protection of coal transportation, especially Long-term contracts for the transportation of coal; Accelerate the construction of railways from coal production areas to consumption sites, and strive to eliminate bottlenecks in railway transportation capacity.

According to the requirements of the National Development and Reform Commission, power companies must strictly implement the national tariff policy, strengthen management, tap potential and reduce consumption, and ensure safe and stable power supply; coal companies must strengthen self-discipline and strictly implement interim coal price intervention measures; Enterprises implement preferential tariff measures. The National Development and Reform Commission will organize and conduct nationwide inspections on the implementation of key coal-fired coal contracts in the near and next year, and clean up the coal-related funds and special inspections of charges, and impose severe penalties on non-implementation of national coal and electricity price control policies. Cases will be publicly exposed.

It is reported that the main background of the above-mentioned comprehensive control measures adopted by the country is to gradually straighten out the coal-electricity relationship, ensure the supply of electricity during the peak winter period, and promote energy conservation and emission reduction. From January to September this year, the total electricity consumption of the whole society increased by 11.95%, and the growth rate in some areas was above 15%. The situation of energy saving and emission reduction was relatively severe, and the pressure for power supply protection was greater. At the same time, coal prices have continued to rise for many years, and the cost of power generation for thermal power companies has increased significantly. In the process of research and brewing of the overall regulation and control plan, the National Development and Reform Commission extensively solicited opinions of local people's governments and major coal production and operation enterprises through various forms such as symposiums. Relevant parties expressed their willingness to actively undertake social responsibilities and stabilize coal prices. Residents used the electricity ladder price plan, and in October 2010, they had publicly solicited the opinions of the whole society through the Internet, and according to the feedback from the opinions, the price increase rate of the battery sub-standard and the third-grade electricity was increased, and 80% of residents were Household electricity prices are not adjusted, and free electricity consumption is set for low-income groups such as urban and rural low-income and rural five-guarantee.

The National Development and Reform Commission said that the introduction of the coal power price control measures will, on the one hand, facilitate the coordinated development of the coal and power industries; on the other hand, it will help curb the unreasonable consumption of energy, especially the excessive growth of high-energy-consuming industries. Promote economic restructuring and energy conservation and emission reduction.