on Issuing the Three-year Action Plan for Energy-saving and Carbon Reduction of Key Industries in Jiangsu Province (2026-2028)
Su Fa Gai Zi Huan Fa [2026] No.796
Development and Reform Commission, Bureau of Industry and Information Technology, Bureau of Ecological Environment, State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission (SASAC):
In order to implement the requirements of the Notice of the National Development and Reform Commission and other five departments on Launching the Three-year Action of Energy Conservation and Carbon Reduction Transformation in Key Industries (FGHZ [2026] No.698), promote the energy conservation and carbon reduction transformation in key industries, and strongly support the realization of the carbon peak target, To make room for high-quality economic and social development, we have formulated the Three-year Action Plan for Energy Conservation and Carbon Reduction in Key Industries in Jiangsu Province (2026-2028), which is now issued and implemented. Relevant matters are notified as follows:
This time, we will focus on eight key industries, including steel, cement, flat glass, oil refining, ethylene, synthetic ammonia, methanol, and coal and electricity. By the end of 2028, the proportion of production capacity reaching the current energy efficiency benchmark level in seven key industries, such as iron and steel, will be increased by 20 percentage points, the benchmark units in the coal-fired power industry will strive to increase by 15 percentage points, and the production capacity below the energy efficiency benchmark level will be basically cleared.
All localities should comprehensively investigate the current situation of energy efficiency and carbon efficiency of enterprises in their jurisdictions, set up a transformation account, and classify and promote the application of advanced technology and equipment, the transformation of key processes and devices, and the green and low-carbon utilization of energy resources. We should adhere to the two-way efforts of stock tapping and incremental control, and strictly control the energy consumption and carbon emissions of new projects. Compact the territorial responsibility and the main responsibility of the enterprise, establish a normal dispatching and supervision mechanism, carry out targeted on-site verification, and resolutely put an end to false transformation and paper rectification. Projects whose energy efficiency does not meet the mandatory energy consumption limit standard and benchmark level should be transformed by the end of 2028 to ensure the smooth completion of the province's energy saving and carbon reduction goals.
Jiangsu Provincial Development and Reform Commission, Jiangsu Provincial Department
of Industry and Information Technology, Jiangsu Provincial Department of Ecological Environment On August 15
, 2026, Jiangsu SASAC
's three-year action plan for energy-saving and carbon-reducing transformation of key industries in Jiangsu Province (2026-2028)
will provide strong support to achieve the goal of carbon peak, make sufficient space for high-quality economic and social development, and base itself on the actual situation of the province. Focus on key industries to promote energy saving and carbon reduction transformation, and comprehensively improve the level of energy efficiency and carbon efficiency in the industry. By the end of 2028, the proportion of production capacity in key industries such as steel, cement, flat glass, oil refining, ethylene, synthetic ammonia and methanol that have reached the current energy efficiency benchmark level will be increased by 20 percentage points, the benchmark units in the coal and electricity industry will strive to increase by 15 percentage points, and the production capacity below the energy efficiency benchmark level will be basically eliminated.
1. Key tasks
(1) Iron and steel industry. Promote energy-saving and carbon-reducing transformation of key processes and devices such as blast furnaces and converters, apply advanced technologies such as large-scale pellet smelting, top pressure gas recovery, oxygen-enriched hot blast stoves, and promote the interface connection technology between processes such as molten iron tank to the end, hot charging and hot delivery. Demonstration applications such as efficient recycling of scrap steel, hydrogen-rich metallurgy , resource utilization of steel slag, CO2 capture and resource utilization of gas will be carried out in an orderly manner. Promote industrial agents to optimize production scheduling and process collaboration to achieve energy efficiency improvement and process energy consumption reduction. Top-loading coke ovens with a coking chamber height of less than 6 meters (less than 5.
) (II) Cement industry. We will promote energy-saving and carbon-reducing transformation of key processes, and promote energy-saving technologies and equipment such as six-stage preheaters, high-efficiency grate coolers and advanced energy-saving grinding technologies. Accelerate the substitution of non-carbonate raw materials, and increase the proportion of calcium-containing and magnesium-containing waste residue resources replacing limestone on the premise of ensuring product quality. We will encourage the use of alternative fuels such as biomass fuels, waste textile fabrics and waste tires, and intensify the harmless and coordinated disposal of industrial solid wastes, municipal sludge, construction wastes and toxic and harmful wastes. The upgrading of cement clinker production lines below 4000 tons per day should be accelerated.
(3) Flat glass industry. We will promote energy-saving and carbon-reducing transformation of key installations such as glass furnaces and kilns, promote low-carbon technologies such as all-electric melting and electric boosting, all-oxygen (oxygen-enriched) combustion, furnace structure optimization, high-efficiency insulation, and multi-line float glass kilns, and strengthen the application of high-efficiency low-nitrogen burners and gradient composite insulation. Promote the intelligent control of automatic batching and melting furnace, tin bath and annealing kiln, and promote the intelligent upgrading of the whole process.
(4) Oil refining and ethylene industry. We will accelerate the upgrading of atmospheric and vacuum distillation units with a capacity of less than 10 million tons per year, catalytic cracking units with a capacity of less than 1.5 million tons per year, continuous reforming units with a capacity of less than 1 million tons per year, hydrocracking units with a capacity of less than 1.5 million tons per year, naphtha cracking units with a capacity of less than 800,000 tons per year to produce ethylene and open delayed coking units. Technologies such as vacuum pumping at the top of atmospheric and vacuum distillation units, low coke formation in catalytic cracking (cracking) units, liquid phase hydrogenation of aviation kerosene, low-carbon deep processing of heavy and inferior residual oil, high-efficiency catalytic cracking flue gas turbine, and cascade utilization of high-pressure steam are applied to optimize the heat exchange network and low-grade heat utilization. Support integrated refining and chemical enterprises to deepen the integration and optimization of steam, hydrogen and fuel gas systems. Promote by-product hydrogen and green hydrogen to replace fossil energy to produce hydrogen.
(5) Methanol and synthetic ammonia industry. We will accelerate the upgrading of equipment and processes such as coal-to-methanol under 1 million tons per year, fixed-bed intermittent gasification, and purification of feed gas for ammonia synthesis by copper washing. We will promote the transformation of coal gasifiers and high-pressure synthesis towers for energy conservation and carbon reduction, and promote technologies such as water-cooled wall coal-water slurry gasification, low-pressure ammonia synthesis, high-efficiency catalysts, isothermal transformation, and methanol rich liquid residual pressure power generation. Promote carbon dioxide to produce methanol, degradable plastics, dimethyl carbonate and other products. Make rational use of by-product hydrogen and green hydrogen to produce synthetic ammonia, develop biomass gasification to produce green methanol according to local conditions, and support the industrialization test and application of low-cost carbon dioxide capture and conversion hydrogen production technology.
(6) Coal and electricity industry. Steady and orderly shutdown of a number of qualified 300000 kilowatt and below coal-fired power units. We will promote the energy-saving and carbon-reducing transformation of 300000 kilowatt and above coal-fired power units in service, determine the transformation path according to the "one machine, one policy", and implement mature technological transformation such as steam turbine flow improvement, low nitrogen and high efficiency combustion of boilers, unit cold end optimization, cascade utilization of flue gas waste heat, and global intelligent centralized control, so as to reduce the coal consumption of power supply. We will promote the implementation of a new generation of special actions to upgrade coal-fired power, and implement flexible transformation such as fast regulation, deep regulation and wide load operation. Coal-electricity coupling biomass power generation is implemented for qualified units, and after transformation, it has the ability to burn more than 10% (calorific value of fuel into the furnace) biomass fuel. Supporting the construction of distributed photovoltaic, energy and heat storage facilities.
Encourage other key energy-consuming enterprises and data centers to actively carry out energy-saving and carbon-reducing transformation, promote low-carbon manufacturing technology and process reengineering, increase clean energy substitution, and increase the proportion of green power consumption. We will accelerate the upgrading of energy-using equipment such as motors, fans, pumps, heat pumps, boilers, oxygen generators, air compressors and transformers, and strengthen the cascade utilization of waste heat and pressure and by-product gas. Develop energy system optimization and promote the transformation of energy efficiency management to digitalization and intellectualization.
2. Support measures
(1) Strengthen financial support and guarantee. We will actively strive for the support of national policies such as investment in the central budget, ultra-long-term special treasury bonds and re-loans for scientific and technological innovation and technological transformation, and give priority to recommending projects whose energy efficiency has reached the benchmark level after transformation. We will make overall use of special financial funds and financial discount policies such as the construction of a strong manufacturing province in Jiangsu Province to support the implementation of energy-saving and carbon-reducing transformation projects in key industries. Promote the provincial energy-saving and environmental protection war new industry fund and other provincial enterprise industry special funds to increase investment in energy-saving and carbon-reducing transformation projects, and guide the participation of social capital.
(2) Promoting energy conservation and carbon reduction storage transactions. Supporting the establishment of energy saving and carbon reduction storage and trading mechanism in all districts and municipalities, and incorporating the energy saving and carbon reduction formed by the transformation project into the unified management of the municipal reserve after being identified by the municipal energy saving authorities.The energy saving and carbon reduction indicators included in the reserve can be transferred by the transformation enterprises themselves or by means of agreement transfer and bidding transaction, and the transaction income belongs to the enterprises that form the indicators.
(3) Strengthen the guidance of energy efficiency standards. Deeply carry out energy efficiency benchmarking in key industries, and cultivate a number of "leaders" in energy efficiency and carbon efficiency. Support benchmarking enterprises to summarize and popularize advanced energy-saving technology, energy-using equipment and management experience, and play a leading and radiation-driven role in demonstration. To guide the production capacity whose energy efficiency is better than benchmark level, we should do our best to promote the transformation of projects whose energy efficiency does not meet the mandatory energy consumption limit standard and the benchmark level, and strive to reach the benchmark level. Financial institutions are encouraged to give differentiated support to "leader" enterprises in financing management.
(4) Deepening financial support for transformation. We will guide financial institutions to develop innovative products such as transformation loans, transformation bonds and carbon finance, and support enterprises in key industries to implement energy-saving and carbon-reducing transformation projects such as energy-saving technological transformation, clean energy substitution and carbon capture and utilization. Promote the landing of products such as sustainable development-linked loans and transformation loans designated for transformation purposes, and link the loan quota, interest rate and term with the effectiveness of enterprise transformation. Supporting financial institutions to make good use of carbon emission reduction support tools and re-lending funds, and increasing credit support for enterprises and projects in the main pool of transformation financing.
(5) Strengthen incentives for carbon quota trading. Enterprises in key industries included in the national carbon emission trading market are encouraged to implement energy-saving and carbon-reducing transformation, and the surplus of carbon quotas is realized through market-oriented trading. Promote enterprises in key industries to establish and improve the management system of carbon assets, enhance the ability of quota performance and trading decision-making, actively participate in carbon market transactions, and continuously support investment in energy-saving and carbon reduction transformation with market-oriented income.
(6) Optimizing project approval services and factor guarantee. For projects included in the list of energy-saving and carbon-reducing renovation plans, relevant departments should intervene in advance and actively serve, and give priority to acceptance, review and completion in the links of joint evaluation and demonstration, project establishment (approval/filing), energy-saving review and environmental assessment and approval. Use the "one thing" integrated service channel for the examination and approval of fixed assets investment projects, and implement one-window acceptance and integrated processing. Local governments should coordinate the implementation of alternative fuel sources such as biomass and industrial solid waste for transformation projects, and strengthen the allocation of resources such as energy consumption indicators and total environmental indicators.
3. Organization and implementation
(1) Comprehensive arrangement. Organize the districts and municipalities to carry out a comprehensive survey of enterprises in key industries, find out the energy consumption, energy consumption structure, comprehensive energy consumption per unit product, carbon emissions and carbon emissions per unit product, energy efficiency level of major devices and energy-using equipment, and establish a list of key energy-using enterprises and energy efficiency benchmarking enterprises (devices) in different industries.
(2) Mobilization and training. Hold mobilization and deployment meetings to unify thinking and understanding, clarify the division of tasks, and consolidate work responsibilities. Relying on industry associations and energy-saving service organizations to organize special training in different industries, we should do a good job in interpreting national and provincial policies, publicizing energy efficiency standards and promoting advanced and applicable technologies to help enterprises accurately grasp the requirements of transformation. Benchmarking enterprises are encouraged to exchange and share typical experiences and implementation paths of energy saving and carbon reduction transformation.
(3) Fine diagnosis. Organize professional organizations and industry experts to go deep into enterprises, focus on the main processes, key devices and key energy-using links to carry out fine diagnosis, thoroughly investigate the outstanding problems of energy utilization, systematically tap the potential of energy saving and carbon reduction, and form diagnostic reports and transformation suggestions. Support the park to organize centralized diagnosis of enterprises, and promote the effective connection between diagnosis results and project planning and fund declaration.
(4) Formulating plans for "one enterprise, one policy". Compact the main responsibility of enterprises, formulate the implementation plan of energy-saving and carbon-reducing transformation based on the diagnostic results, and clarify the content, technical path, time limit arrangement and expected results of the transformation. Make rational use of opportunities such as shutdown and maintenance to arrange the time sequence of transformation, make full use of market-oriented modes such as contract energy management, and promote the coordinated implementation of process equipment renewal, energy-using equipment upgrading and energy system optimization.
(5) Project reserve. Establish and improve the reserve bank of energy-saving and carbon reduction renovation projects at provincial and municipal levels. The districts and municipalities are responsible for project collection, identification and storage, and the provincial level is responsible for verification, overall collection and classified management. To guide enterprises to do a solid job in the early stage of the project, to push forward in accordance with the principle of mature batch and support batch, and to timely declare the central budget investment and other financial support if conditions permit. Strengthen the whole cycle tracking and scheduling of the project, form a list of energy-saving and carbon-reducing transformation plans, and implement dynamic management.
(6) Project implementation. Accelerate the implementation of reserve projects and form the actual effect of energy saving and carbon reduction as soon as possible. Supporting enterprises to promote energy-saving and carbon-reducing transformation and equipment renewal, safety transformation and environmental protection management as a whole, so as to reduce repeated shutdown and reduce the cost of transformation.
(7) Identification of energy saving and carbon reduction. After the renovation project is put on record and the implementation plan is determined, the expected amount of energy saving and carbon reduction can be included in the local index reserve. After the completion of the project transformation, a quantifiable and traceable amount of energy saving and carbon reduction will be formed through the declaration of enterprises, the confirmation of the competent energy-saving departments of districts and municipalities, and the approval of the competent energy-saving departments at the provincial level. The approved results serve as an important basis for the implementation of policies such as financial support and financial transformation. The approved carbon emission reduction can be used as the source of carbon emission replacement for new (renovation, expansion) and technological transformation "two high" projects.
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