2 Beijing districts go electric
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Beijing’s central Xicheng and Dongcheng districts have phased out coal-fired heating stoves with 29,900 more households equipped with electric heaters.
Since the capital launched its coal-to-electricity project in 2000, 308,000 households in the districts have switched, the Beijing Environmental Protection Bureau said.
The move will reduce annual emissions by 3,080 tons of smoke, 2,618 tons of sulfur dioxide and 616 tons of nitrogen oxide, it said.
“Electric radiators are clean and economical, and we don’t worry about gas poisoning any more,” said Chen Yuying, a 64-year-old Xicheng resident.
He said a city subsidy also meant that electric heaters were cheaper than coal-fired stoves.
The capital’s annual average density of sulfur dioxide, a major air pollutant, fell about 69 percent to reach a record low of 22 micrograms per cubic meter in 2014 compared to 2000, according to official figures. The density fell to 13 micrograms in the first 10 months this year.
Beijing will next focus on cutting coal use in the suburbs, where about 1.3 million tons is consumed every year.
The city plans to reduce coal consumption by 500,000 tons in urban-rural border areas next year as well as eliminating coal use in the six downtown districts and closing all coal-fired boilers in the city by 2020.
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