Power giant State Grid is set to announce it has completed two intelligent energy towns in Tianjin, thus becoming the first such Chinese towns in which electricity consumers save cost by 10 percent on average, compared with ordinary industrial and residential towns.
The company also unveiled an ambitious target to build more such towns in the city's coastal Binhai New Area and throughout the country, due to its prominent carbon dioxide reduction capacity, which is in line with the country's pledge to eventually peak carbon emissions and achieve carbon neutrality.
The company said it has invested heavily in the initiative and taken nearly two years to construct the towns located in the Huifengxi residential area of the Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-City and Dazhangzhuang township, a model industrial zone in Beichen district, with a combined area of 14.5 square kilometers and a total population of 72,000.
It said it has upgraded power facilities, such as energy and heat storage stations, power networks as well as some projects operating in industrial and residential buildings and even some "zero energy consumption" buildings.
"To date, the two towns have seen clean energy cover 90 percent of the total area," said Wang Jianfeng, director of the Internet Department of State Grid Tianjin Electric Power Co.
"This clean energy utilization rate could benchmark current high-end intelligent towns in Denmark and Finland. In particular, the electricity power there has accounted for 45 percent of the total end power, 18 percentage points higher than the country's average," he said.
In addition, the two new towns in Tianjin have slashed carbon dioxide by 20,600 metric tons annually since 2018, he said.