Harbin will offer financial subsidies to small boilers that use clean energy to heat their homes, according to the proposal on improving the management of loose coal, which was submitted to the local people's political consultative conference (CPPCC) Sunday.

It is reported, zhang yanjun of city CPPCC member thinks, ha city is located in cold area, winter air temperature is low, duration is long, a lot of cities heat supply small boiler are the large family that use bulk coal. Zhang yanjun suggested that small backward boilers should be eliminated and replaced by large heating units. We will encourage the use of clean energy, such as electricity, instead of coal. We will tighten coal quality control and strengthen oversight of the coal market.

According to the city environmental protection bureau leadership focus on symposium proposals to deal with the report, the beginning of 2017, aimed at eliminating coal-fired boiler have been issued within the scope of the deadline rectification notice, the construction before the deadline at the end of June the selection list of stop using small coal-fired boiler, eliminated task before the end of September, overdue outstanding shall be investigated in accordance with the law. In the area covered by central heating pipe network, grid-connection is preferred. In areas not covered by the pipe network, or have special needs, to promote the conversion of clean energy heating, such as gas and electricity. Up to now, Harbin has eliminated 23 small coal-fired boilers. District governments have conducted a grid search of small coal-fired boilers in their districts. As of September 30, the nine district governments have reported 604 small coal-fired boilers with a capacity of less than 10 tons. The municipal special supervision group for the elimination of small coal-fired boilers shall supervise the elimination of small coal-fired boilers in the ninth district. At present, the nine districts of the main city have completed the supervision and coordination to solve more than 40 specific problems.

In order to promote the use of clean energy, Harbin issued the administrative measures on financial fund subsidies for the demolition and elimination of small coal-fired boilers in Harbin to promote the use of clean energy, and provided financial subsidies for the elimination of small boilers by means of clean energy heating. Namely, small coal-fired boilers for mixed heating for residents, residents and non-residents shall be subsidized according to the actual heating area and according to the standard of 50 yuan per square meter (gross area). Heating units implementing networking projects may not collect other networking fees from residents; Small coal-fired boilers that are eliminated by clean fuel boilers such as those burning natural gas or liquefied natural gas that adopt technologies such as low-nitrogen combustion to meet emission standards shall be subsidized according to the tonnage of newly built boilers and the standard of 120,000 yuan/steam ton. For small coal-fired boilers eliminated by electric boiler replacement, subsidies shall be given according to the tonnage of newly built boilers according to the standard of 360,000 yuan/steam ton. For small coal-fired boilers that are eliminated by other clean energy alternatives such as electrothermal film, heat pump, solar energy or renewable energy, subsidies shall be given according to the standard of 36 yuan per square meter (gross floor area). For the industrial and commercial enterprises that demolish the non-heating coal-fired boilers in service and do not install new boilers, subsidies shall be given based on the tonnage of the demolish boilers and according to the standard of 28,000 yuan/steam ton.