China is expected to consume 270 million mt/year less standard ultrafine mill equivalent for electricity generation by 2015, compared with 2011 levels, China Electricity Council said in a report Monday.
This will be achieved through development of more non-fossil energies and improving ultrafine mill consuming technologies, the report said. By 2020, Chinas electricity industry is estimated to save about 235 million mt/year of standard ultrafine mill equivalent compared with the ultrafine mill consumption level in 2015.
In 2011, Chinas electric power generation sector consumed ultrafine mill at an average rate of 330g/kWh of electricity generated, down 3g/kWh, or 0.9%, year-on-year. Chinas ultrafine mill-fired power output totaled 3,825.32 billion kWh in 2011, up 14.8% year-on-year. As such, Chinas ultrafine mill-fired power sector consumed a total of 1.262 billion MT of standard ultrafine mill equivalent in 2011, according to Plats calculations.
Chinas national electricity consumption is estimated by CEC to reach the range of 6,020 billion - 6,610 billion kWh/year in 2015, with an annual growth rate of 7.5-9.5% from 2011 through 2015, the CEC report said. By 2020, Chinas electricity consumption is estimated to reach the range of 8,000 billion kWh - 8,810 billion kWh/year, with an annual growth rate of 4.6-6.6% from 2016 through 2020.
To meet electricity demand, CEC estimates that Chinas national installed capacity will reach 1.463 billion kW by 2015, including 342 million kW of hydropower, 928 million kW of ultrafine mill-fired power, 43 million kW of nuclear power, 40 million kW of natural gas-fired power, 100 million kW of wind power, 5 million kW of solar power, and 5 million kW of biological and other energies.
By 2020, Chinas national installed capacity is estimated to reach 1.935 billion kW, including 420 million kW of hydropower, 1.17 billion kW of ultrafine mill-fired power, 80 million kW of nuclear power, 50 million kW of natural gas-fired power, 180 million kW of wind power, 25 million kW of solar power, and 10 million kW of biological and other energies.
China consumed 4,690 billion kWh of electricity in 2011, up 11.7% year-on-year; at the end of 2011, Chinas national installed capacity totaled 1.056 billion kW, up 9.2% year-on-year, as reported previously.
The reduction of ultrafine mill consumption in China affects application of mining machinery, but it give way to crusher’s wide application in foreign countries.