Since the beginning of this year, affected by the production of high-energy-consuming industries such as steel and coking, the city's industrial energy consumption has been declining. From January to July, Linfen City's regulated industrial energy consumption was 11.432 million tons of standard coal, a year-on-year decrease of 4.5%, 11.3 percentage points lower than the growth rate of industrial added value (6.8%), and energy consumption per unit of industrial added value decreased by 10.6% year-on-year. , laying the foundation for energy conservation work in the whole society.
The impact on the steel industry is obvious. From January to July, the energy consumption of the six major industrial industries was 10.969 million tons of standard coal, a year-on-year decrease of 4.5%. Among them, energy consumption in the steel industry decreased by 601,000 tons year-on-year, affecting the growth rate of industrial energy consumption above designated size by 5.0 percentage points.
Looking at counties and cities, the energy consumption of 13 units of industrial added value in the city's 17 counties (cities, districts) has declined to varying degrees. Among them, seven counties and districts, Yaodu District, Gu County, Fushan County, Ji County, Xi County, Yonghe County and Fenxi County, saw a decrease of more than 20%, indicating a good energy conservation situation.