On March 25, the reporter learned from the Provincial Development and Reform Committee:In order to thoroughly implement the energy consumption dual control policy of the Party Central Committee and our province, ensure the completion of the "14th Five-Year Plan" energy consumption dual control targets for the province, speed up the development of green transformation, and help achieve the goal of carbon peaking and carbon neutrality, our province will implement energy budget management.

According to the "Implementation Plan for Energy Budget Management of Shaanxi Province" issued by the Provincial Development and Reform Commission, the scope of energy budget management includes key industrial sectors such as iron and steel, nonferrous metals, building materials, petrochemicals, chemicals, papermaking, and textiles. Key energy-consuming enterprises with an annual comprehensive energy consumption of 5,000 tons of standard coal (full caliber) and above. (The electricity industry is not included in the energy budget management according to the electricity dispatch method).

Key energy-consuming enterprises covered by the energy budget management shall submit the Annual Report on Energy Utilization and related supporting documents to the development and reform department of the city (district) where they are located before February 20 of each year. The development and reform departments of each city (district) shall determine the enterprise energy budget benchmark (valid for 5 years) and annual energy budget target in accordance with the energy budget rules specified in the implementation plan, and these shall be made public. Enterprises shall formulate implementation plans and use energy in an orderly manner in accordance with their annual energy budget targets. Each city (district) shall rely on the provincial energy consumption online monitoring platform to implement monthly monitoring, quarterly early warning, and annual settlement of energy consumption by enterprises.

The implementation plan explicitly allows enterprises that exceed their annual energy budget to satisfy their energy needs through energy right transactions, purchasing green electricity (based on green certificates), and other methods. The Provincial Development and Reform Commission has formulated and issued the "Shaanxi Province Energy Right Transaction Management Measures" to give full play to the market's decisive role in resource allocation and ensure enterprise development while promoting energy conservation and consumption reduction.

In accordance with the Administrative Measures, key energy-consuming enterprises included in the scope of energy use budget management can purchase government energy surplus or corporate energy-saving indicators through the provincial and municipal public resource transaction platform for trading (excluding green electricity trading), except for enterprises included in the list of severe breach of trust in credit management. Among them, government energy surplus indicators include energy indicators generated by annual GDP growth and energy consumption indicators vacated by eliminating backward production capacity, reducing excess production capacity (such as steel, cement, plate glass, and electrolytic aluminum), and shutting down enterprises; energy-saving indicators of enterprises include energy-saving results by enterprises through energy-saving technological transformation or strengthening energy-saving management. The energy surplus generated by GDP growth and energy consumption indicators vacated by shut-down enterprises shall be traded in a unified manner by the provincial government or transferred to the relocated enterprises across cities and regions; the energy consumption indicators vacated by eliminating backward production capacity and reducing excess production capacity shall be traded in various cities and regions; and energy-saving indicators of enterprises shall be traded independently by the enterprises.

Raw material energy consumption shall not be included in energy consumption budget management and enterprise energy consumption budget benchmark, and renewable green electricity (based on green certificate) shall not occupy annual energy consumption budget index. Starting from 2024, the proportion of annual green electricity (based on green certificate) used by energy-consuming units included in the list of provincial key energy-consuming units shall reach more than 30% of the total electricity consumption; the proportion of annual green electricity (based on green certificate) used by energy-consuming units in industries with large electricity consumption such as ferrosilicon, calcium carbide, electrolytic aluminum, polysilicon, industrial silicon, and data centers shall reach more than 60% of the total electricity consumption.