Chương II Luật sử dụng năng lượng tiết kiệm và hiệu quả 2010: Sử dụng năng lượng tiết kiệm và hiệu quả trong sản xuất công nghiệp

Chapter II

ECONOMICAL AND EFFICIENT USE OF ENERGY IN INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION

Article 9. Industrial producers' responsi­bilities for economical and efficient use of energy

1. Industrial producers include manufacturers. processors and subcontract processors of products and goods; manufacturers and repairers of devices and equipment: mining establishments; and energy producers and suppliers.

2. Industrial producers shall:

a/ Elaborate and implement annual plans on economical and efficient use of energy; incorporate energy management programs with their programs on quality control, cleaner production and environmental protection;

b/ Apply standards, technical regulations and norms on energy use provided by competent state agencies; select and apply advanced production management processes and models, appropriate

technological measures and equipment and technologies with high energy yield: use substitute energies with higher efficiency in production lines;

c/ Apply technical measures and workshop architecture to make the optimal use of lighting, ventilation and cooling systems: to make the best use of natural light and ventilation;

d/ To operate, upgrade and maintain devices and equipment of production lines to prevent energy loss:

e/ To gradually eliminate devices and equipment with outdated and energy-intensive technologies under the Prime Minister's regulations.

3. The Ministry of Industry and Trade shall assume the prime responsibility for, and coordinate with concerned ministries and ministerial-level agencies in, promulgating technical regulations and norms on energy use applicable to each industry.

Article 10. Measures for economical and efficient use of energy applicable to producers, processors and subcontract producers of products and goods

Producers, processors and subcontract producers of products and goods shall, based on standards, technical regulations and norms on energy use, select and apply the following technological and managerial measures:

1. Modernizing lines for production, processing and subcontract production of products and goods; replacing equipment with outdated technologies and low energy yield to save energy and protect the environment;

2. Improving and streamlining the processes of:

a/ Burning fuels in steam boilers and smelting, baking and drying furnaces;

b/ Heat exchange in heat and cold intensifiers;

c/ Converting thermal into electric energy, electric into thermal and mechanical energy and other forms of energy conversion;

3. Making use of redundant heat emitted from steam boilers and smelting and baking furnaces and emitted hot steam for production and life;

4. Taking technical measures to reduce energy loss in electricity and heat supply systems:

5. Using electric motors, steam boilers and pumps with high yield, inverters and motor speed controllers for installation, construction, replacement and repair of works;

6. Applying cogeneration technologies to processors, subcontract producers and producers of products and goods with potential to develop additional electric and thermal charges.

Article 11. Measures for economical and efficient use of energy applicable to manufacturers and repairers of devices and equipment

Manufacturers and repairers of devices and equipment shall, based on standards, technical regulations and norms on energy use. select and apply the following technological and managerial measures;

1. Elaborating and implementing plans to replace outdated technologies: installing new-generation tool machines of modern and highly automated technologies:

2. Applying baking, smelting, forming, forging, molding, milling, lathing and processing technologies which have been proved in reality to be energy-economical and -efficient;

3. Installing inverters and electric motor speed controllers for bridge cranes, lifting equipment and vehicles in workshops based on their capacity; rationally arranging production lines to save energy.

Article 12. Measures for economical and efficient use of energy applicable to mining establishments

Mining establishments shall, based on standards, technical regulations and norms on energy use, select and apply the following technological and managerial measures:

1. Applying reasonable mining processes to reduce consumption of fuels, electricity and water supplied to mining devices and equipment:

2. Selecting devices and equipment meeting mining conditions of mines to raise mining capacity while saving energy;

3. Applying energy-saving technologies to mineral screening, sorting, processing and transportation;

4. Reasonably designing and installing ventilation systems in pits to ensure economical and efficient use of energy.

Article 13. Measures for economical and efficient use of energy applicable to energy producers and suppliers

1. Energy producers and suppliers shall, based on standards, technical regulations and norms on energy use. apply the following technological and managerial measures:

a/ Selecting technologies with high energy yield: fully installing measuring devices and examining their operation parameters; regularly adjusting and maintaining furnaces, machines and accessories in electric power plants to ensure that the plants' general yield reach their designed yield;

b/ Making use of emitted heat and steam of high temperature for the burning and drying of fuels and heating of water supplied to furnaces in order to raise electric generation yield of turbine units:

c/ Power generating establishments are subject to national power system regulating units' mobilization and shall elaborate and implement plans to reduce self-consumed power;

d/ Hydro-power plants shall observe processes to operate reservoirs or reservoir systems, meet requirements on safe power generation and join efforts to supply water for production and life;

e/ Electricity transmission and distribution units shall elaborate programs, plans and norms on and specify roadmaps for power loss reduction in the electricity transmission and distribution system;

f/ Fuel exploiters and suppliers shall use safe and appropriate depots and vehicles to reduce fuel loss and present environmental pollution and energy waste;

g/ Coal, oil and gas exploiters shall adopt plans to salvage associated gas and other energy resources.

2. Construction of coal-, oil-, or gas-fired turbine units of outdated technologies and low yield is disallowed under the Prime Minister's regulations.

Article 14. Cottage industrial producers' responsibilities for economical and efficient use of energy

Cottage industrial producers shall select and apply technological and managerial measures for economical and efficient use of energy defined in Articles 9. 10 and 11 of this Law relevant to their sizes and production lines.