Jiangsu push lighting energy-saving renovation project

In Taizhou, Jiangsu Province, walking in the streets of the downtown area at night, the dim light has become a memory. Over the past six months or so, with the opening of lighting energy-saving projects, traditional lighting fixtures have been “laid off” and replaced by energy-saving LED lamps. The road became brighter, the city became more beautiful, and contract energy management became a new business card for Taizhou.

Contract Energy Management Helps Government Win-Win

“Under the lights, it is a figure of a city.” Under the background of transforming the mode of economic development and promoting energy conservation and emission reduction, realizing the upgrading of urban areas from traditional lighting to “green lighting” has become an important measure for the development of Taizhou City. However, there are hundreds of thousands of traditional lighting equipment in the urban area. How can we complete the "exchange of blood" in a more economical, environmentally friendly, and more efficient way?

Contract energy management, this new type of market-oriented energy-saving mechanism has entered the Taizhou City government decision-making perspective.

The essence of contract energy management is the energy-saving investment method of paying the full cost of energy-saving projects with reduced energy costs. This energy-saving investment method allows customers to use future energy-saving benefits to upgrade plants and equipment to reduce current operating costs. Energy management contracts are signed between companies that implement energy-saving projects and specialized energy-saving service companies, which help promote the implementation of energy-saving projects.

In November 2013, the Taizhou Municipal Government organized an on-site office meeting at Huaqiang Lighting Equipment Co., Ltd. The meeting decided to use the contract energy management model to replace all traditional lighting fixtures in urban roads, communities, schools, hospitals, and institutions with one year's time. Into energy-saving and environmental protection LED lights, Taizhou will be built into a national green lighting application model city.

Then, what makes the contract energy management model the ultimate choice? As the implementer of the contract energy management project, Huaqiang Lighting Equipment Co., Ltd. Chairman Chen Xianhua said: “In implementing the contract energy management model, the government does not only need to invest one penny, but also Every year, we can save a lot of electricity and maintenance costs.In the contract period, the company will only collect the electricity savings and share the power-saving benefits in proportion with the government; after the contract expires, the project assets are all owned by the government, and the government has truly achieved zero investment. Zero risk. Through the implementation of LED lighting contract energy management projects, not only bigger and stronger companies, but also increased national and local tax revenue, reducing the government's public lighting tariff burden. This is a win-win government-enterprise cooperation."

Chen Xianhua calculated an account for the author. The contract energy management project has a duration of 8 years, and Huaqiang Lighting Company will be responsible for the initial investment in street lamp replacement. The company will only charge the electricity savings and corresponding subsidies from the state and provincial finances; within 8 years, the company will be responsible for free maintenance of all LED street lamps. 8 The annual maintenance cost of the light can save the government over 100 million yuan. After the project is completed, it can save 5186 kWh annually, save 18,200 tons of standard coal, and reduce carbon dioxide by 45,400 tons.