Study on technical route and business mode of electric heating in rural areas of North China

Abstract

In 2017, after the conversion of coal to gas and coal to electricity in parts of northern rural areas, there was a shortage of gas supply and power supply, reflecting the lack of overall planning and scientific management of rural clean heating. Based on the field case analysis and research in a rural area of Hebei Province, this paper studies the technical route and business model of electric heating in rural areas of North China. The research shows that the electricity consumption per unit area in the heating season is about 53∼133kWh, the electricity cost per unit area is about 23∼45 yuan, and the initial investment of equipment are mostly more than ten thousand yuan, which is beyond the user’s tolerance. Thus the single electric heating technology is not economically viable in rural areas. This paper proposed a combined technical scheme to carry out coal-to-electricity transformation according to local economic and resource conditions, which can solve about 68% of the coal-to-electricity demand in the village. It is necessary to coordinate and plan in a unified manner, and the business model uniformly organized and implemented by integrated energy service providers has great feasibility.