F our major coal-fired plants have been used for decades to provide much of Beijing's electricity needs. Now, under China's Clean Air Initiative, the first coal plant was closed already last July, two further ones were now shut down within ten days and the...
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F our major coal-fired plants have been used for decades to provide much of Beijing's electricity needs. Now, under China's Clean Air Initiative, the first coal plant was closed already last July, two further ones were now shut down within ten days and the last is scheduled for closure next year, according to China's state-run Xinhua news agency. The 400 MW Guohua Thermal Power Plant, idled on March 20, had been supplying heat and power to a key business district in east-central Beijing. The closure was part of the capital's 5-year campaign which aims to curb coal consumption by 13 million tons from the 23 million tons used in 2012. Beijing plans to build four gas-fired thermal power plants to replace its four coal-fired ones, in a bid to cut the capital's dependency on coal. Neighbouring provinces have also idled several coal power plants. Tianjin converts coal plant to run on gas The coastal municipality of Tianjin, for example, shut down its biggest coal power plant on Wednesday las
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