To check the measured PUE, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology will conduct comprehensive energy-saving monitoring of large and ultra-large data centers.

Notice of the Office of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology on Conducting the 2022 Industrial Energy Conservation Supervision Work

MIIT Letter [2022] No. 192 号

Industrial and Information Technology departments of all provinces, autonomous regions, municipalities directly under the Central Government, and the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps:

In order to implement the "People's Republic of China Energy Conservation Law" and the "Industrial Energy Conservation Management Measures", and to continuously promote industrial energy conservation and efficiency improvement and green and low-carbon development, the relevant matters concerning the 2022 industrial energy conservation supervision work are hereby notified as follows:

I. In-depth implementation of national special industrial energy conservation supervision

Focusing on key industries and fields, strengthen the energy conservation supervision of key enterprises and key energy-consuming equipment, give full play to the binding role of mandatory energy efficiency standards, and improve energy utilization efficiency.

(1) Special inspection of energy efficiency in key industries. Conduct special inspections on the implementation of mandatory unit product energy consumption limit standards for enterprises in industries such as steel, petrochemicals, building materials, and non-ferrous metal smelting. Based on the work in 2021, comprehensive energy conservation inspections will be conducted on enterprises in the steel, coke, ferroalloy, cement (with clinker production lines), electrolytic aluminum, as well as oil refining, ethylene, p-xylene, modern coal chemical industry (coal-to-methanol, coal-to-olefins, coal-to-ethylene glycol), synthetic ammonia, calcium carbide, caustic soda, soda ash, diammonium phosphate, yellow phosphorus, flat glass, building and sanitary ceramics, and non-ferrous metals (copper smelting, lead smelting, zinc smelting) industries.

(2) Special inspection of energy efficiency in key areas. In accordance with the "Guiding Opinions on Strengthening the Construction of Green Data Centers" (Ministry of Industry and Information Technology Joint Circular [2019] No. 24 ) and relevant energy efficiency standards, conduct comprehensive energy conservation inspections of large and super-large data centers, calculate the measured value of power usage effectiveness (PUE), and check the equipment of energy metering instruments. Combining the situation of special energy conservation inspections of data centers in recent years, a work ledger of key data center energy efficiency in this region will be compiled and established.

(3) Special inspection of energy efficiency improvement of key energy-consuming equipment. In accordance with relevant national mandatory energy efficiency standards, implement the "Motor Energy Efficiency Improvement Plan (2021-2023 ) and the "Transformer Energy Efficiency Improvement Plan (2021-2023)", conduct energy conservation inspections on enterprises using key energy-consuming equipment such as motors, transformers, fans, air compressors, and pumps, verify equipment ledgers, and work with relevant departments to legally urge enterprises to eliminate inefficient equipment that does not meet the limit values of mandatory energy efficiency standards. This special inspection will be conducted in conjunction with other special inspections and will not be reported separately.

(4) Special inspection of the rectification of enterprises that violated regulations in 2021. Conduct inspections on enterprises that exceeded energy consumption limits and other enterprises that violated energy conservation laws and regulations found in the special energy conservation inspections in 2021. For those that have not rectified according to the requirements or have not rectified in place, they will be dealt with in accordance with the law and regulations in conjunction with relevant departments.

II. Continue to do a good job in daily industrial energy conservation supervision

The daily industrial energy conservation supervision work mainly includes: the implementation of mandatory unit product energy consumption limit standards and mandatory energy efficiency standards for key energy-consuming equipment for industries and enterprises not covered by the 2022 national special industrial energy conservation supervision; the establishment of energy management systems, the establishment of energy management positions, and the implementation of energy management systems such as the performance of energy management personnel, the implementation of energy metering, energy consumption statistics, and energy utilization status reporting systems; the implementation of energy conservation education and training, etc. The results of daily industrial energy conservation supervision should be published in a timely manner, and follow-up supervision and rectification should be carried out.

III. Strengthen the construction of basic capabilities for industrial energy conservation supervision

(1) Improve the working system. Further strengthen the construction of the three-level industrial energy conservation supervision agency system at the provincial, municipal, and county levels, build a supervision system with unified goals, clear responsibilities, and reasonable division of labor, and strengthen exchanges between supervision agencies at all levels. Accelerate the improvement of the cross-departmental linkage industrial energy conservation supervision mechanism, and properly handle work coordination. Innovate the working mode of industrial energy conservation supervision, encourage the adoption of cross-regional cross-law enforcement, pairing assistance law enforcement, provincial, municipal, and county linkage law enforcement, and the introduction of third-party professional institutions to support and assist, to ensure that the industrial energy conservation supervision work achieves real results.

(2) Strengthen capacity building. Please combine the actual situation in various regions, and on the basis of strictly implementing epidemic prevention and control requirements, orderly conduct industrial energy conservation supervision training, disseminate energy conservation and low-carbon laws, regulations, standards, and specifications, and improve the professional capabilities of grassroots personnel. Actively promote the online monitoring of enterprise energy consumption, online verification of the energy efficiency of energy-using equipment, online filling of energy conservation supervision results, and electronic archives of key enterprise main energy-using equipment, and improve the informatization level of industrial energy conservation supervision.

(3) Strengthen the application of results. Strengthen follow-up guidance, and put forward improvement suggestions for unreasonable energy consumption behaviors of enterprises and weak links in energy management found in industrial energy conservation supervision. Encourage enterprises to regularly conduct energy conservation diagnosis and energy efficiency benchmarking, and accelerate the implementation of energy efficiency improvement transformation.

IV. Work requirements

(1) Strengthen organizational leadership. Please compile plans and schemes, refine measures and methods, clarify goals and progress, and ensure that all work is completed on time and with high quality. Please submit by August 15 The 2022 National Special Industrial Energy Conservation Supervision tasks have been submitted to the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (Department of Energy Conservation and Comprehensive Utilization) (see Attachments 1 and 2). The annual work summary report (including: summary of special supervision and daily supervision work, report on the construction of the industrial energy conservation supervision system and mechanism, key data center energy efficiency work ledger, list of actual supervised enterprises and supervision results, etc.) should be submitted before December 15. Please submit the electronic version of the aforementioned materials through the Industrial Energy Conservation and Green Development Management Platform (green.miit.gov.cn) simultaneously.

(2) Strictly regulate law enforcement. All levels of industrial and information technology authorities and industrial energy conservation supervision agencies should standardize supervision procedures and law enforcement practices, increase the intensity of law enforcement inspections, investigate and deal with various illegal and irregular energy-using behaviors, and deal with those who refuse to rectify or fail to rectify in accordance with laws and regulations.

(3) Strengthen supervision and inspection. All levels of industrial and information technology authorities and industrial energy conservation supervision agencies should publicly disclose the status of supervision work to the public, legally publish lists of non-compliant enterprises, and proactively accept public supervision. Encourage cooperation with relevant departments to establish a joint punishment mechanism, incorporate the results of industrial energy conservation supervision and law enforcement into the social credit system, promote enterprises to strictly implement energy conservation laws, regulations and policies, fully exert the supervisory and restrictive role of supervision, and strengthen the effectiveness of industrial energy conservation law enforcement.

Attachments:

1.2022 Annual National Special Industrial Energy Conservation Supervision Task Summary Table.doc

2.2022 Annual National Special Industrial Energy Conservation Supervision Enterprise List.doc

3. Summary Table of Energy Consumption of Key Data Centers.wps

Office of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology

2022 July 28, Year