Mainland China's National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) and the National Energy Administration announced action plan to decarbonize coal power plants

Country / jurisdiction: People's Republic of China · Year: 2024 · Status: In force · Level: State/Provincial · Type: Voluntary

The NDRC has asked for provincial governments as well as state-owned enterprises to voluntarily nominate coal projects that can be pilots for this program, which is the first time these technologies are being deployed in a centralized national scheme targeting coal-fired power plants. The test runs will help cut carbon intensities of coal plants by around 20% by 2025 and 50% by 2027 from the average industry levels in 2023. Cofiring renewable ammonia is one of the decarbonizing pathways that will be tested among biomass cofiring and carbon capture and storage. For cofiring of both renewable ammonia and biomass, these components have to make up at least 10% of the fuel mix, and that the projext should use renewable ammonia derived from mega-projects being constructed in mainland China's desert areas.

Official source: https://en.ndrc.gov.cn/