High Efficiency Motors - China Launches New Engine for Energy Conservation and Emission Reduction in the Twelfth Five-Year Plan

China’s Ministry of Finance and the National Development and Reform Commission recently announced in Xiangtan City, Hunan Province that a series of supporting policies such as financial subsidies will be adopted starting this month to promote the application of high-efficiency energy-saving motors in the domestic market. China, which has been criticized by the West as a "energy-consuming country," has vigorously launched a new engine for energy conservation and emission reduction in the "12th Five-Year Plan."

Xie Zhenhua, deputy director of the National Development and Reform Commission, stated at the National Conference on Promotion of High-Efficiency Motors that the current annual electricity consumption of Chinese motors exceeds 2 trillion kilowatt-hours, which accounts for about 60% of the country's electricity consumption and 80% of industrial electricity consumption. The promotion of highly efficient and energy-saving motors and the promotion of energy-saving and emission-reduction are of great significance to the completion of the energy consumption reduction target per unit of GDP during the “12th Five-Year Plan” period and the protection of national energy security.

Motors are power sources in the fields of industry, agriculture, construction and public utilities, and are the “heart” components of economic and social development. The energy consumption of high-efficiency motors can be reduced by 20% to 30% compared to ordinary motors.

Chen Weihua, secretary-general of China's rotating electrical machinery standardization technical committee, pointed out that compared to the case of high-efficiency or ultra-efficient energy-saving motors in European and American markets, the market share of highly efficient energy-saving motors in China is very small, and the overall operating efficiency of motor systems is about 20% lower than in developed countries.

According to statistics, China's annual new motor capacity reaches 150 million kilowatts, and its total capacity exceeds 700 million kilowatts. According to calculations, replacing all ordinary motors with high-efficiency motors will eventually save at least 60 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity each year, which is close to the annual power generation of the Three Gorges Power Station.

It is reported that in 2011, the Ministry of Finance of China and the National Development and Reform Commission determined that the country’s high-efficiency motor promotion was 31.77 million kilowatts, accounting for approximately 30% of China’s motor sales, including 20 million kilowatts of low-voltage high-efficiency motors, 10 million kilowatts of high-voltage high-efficiency motors, and rare earth permanent magnet motors. Ten thousand kilowatts. These promotion tasks were undertaken by 50 motor production companies such as Xiangtan Motor, Wolong Electric, and Nanyang Explosion Proof.

Yan Yongfei, deputy general manager of China High-performance Motor R&D backbone company Xiangtan Electric Group pointed out that the industry guidance policies of the Ministry of Finance and the National Development and Reform Commission are not only providing direct subsidies for “real money, silver and silver” but also supporting “hard measures”, such as revised The energy efficiency standards of motors, fans, pumps, air compressors and other products require that all new projects must use high-efficiency energy-saving equipment and products.

According to reports, a short period of time after the Ministry of Finance and the National Development and Reform Commission introduced the subsidy policy, a large number of enterprises and key projects such as PetroChina, Sinopec, and South-to-North Water Transfer have decided to purchase high-efficiency motors on a large scale and accelerate the elimination of existing high energy-consuming old and old ones. Motor.

Can China's high-efficiency motor capacity meet rising demand? Zhu Jianfei, an expert of CSR Zhuzhou Electric Co., Ltd., pointed out that at present, China's high-efficiency motor industry has formed a relatively complete industrial chain, in the new winding process, silicon steel sheet precision stamping, cast copper rotor, high-pressure precision die-casting molding, etc., China's motor companies Has mastered efficient and ultra-efficient motor production technology. In addition, China's rare earth resources are rich in species, high in quality, and have strong ability to produce raw materials such as cold-rolled silicon steel, copper, and pure aluminum. Large-scale production of high-efficiency motors has unique conditions.

However, in contrast to this advantage, the Chinese domestic market has used a large number of ordinary motors with high energy consumption and low efficiency for a long period of time, and most of the high-efficiency motors are used for exports, resulting in the “use of Chinese metals, rare earths, and electricity. Resources, but the achievements of Western energy-efficient motors commonly used in developed countries, the embarrassing situation.

Chen Weihua and Others believe that the price factor is the key to the above-mentioned embarrassing situation. The reporter learned from relevant parties that the average price of low-voltage motors of 22 kilowatts or less is 220 yuan per kilowatt, which is 20%-40% higher than that of ordinary motors. High-efficiency motors cannot rely solely on market mechanisms to promote themselves and must rely on policy guidance.

At the national high-efficiency motor promotion work conference, Deputy Minister of Finance Zhang Shaochun said that in order to speed up the promotion and application of high-efficiency motors, China will step up the establishment of a high-efficiency motor promotion mechanism with financial subsidy policies as the core, in which the financial subsidy will be further increased and users are encouraged. Purchasing high-efficiency motors on a large scale, and accelerating the elimination of old and high-energy motors.

Under this background, China's 2011 high-efficiency motor finance subsidy policy has changed significantly compared with previous policies: the subsidy standard is based on the cost difference between high-efficiency motors and ordinary motors, and it also properly considers the scale effect, power-saving effect and other factors. .

The industry generally believes that the high standard of financial subsidy, strong operability, and obvious marketization features. The most prominent point is that many product financial subsidies have reached 10% of the selling price or even higher, and they have the effect of “filling up” the difference. Has the power to shake the market.