What business opportunities will sewage sludge treatment meet

        Energy conservation and consumption reduction of existing treatment facilities, expansion and upgrading of sewage treatment plant and construction of sludge treatment and disposal infrastructure will provide business opportunities for environmental protection enterprises.

        Cui Yuchen, reporter of China Environmental News, reported that "the development of China's sewage treatment industry includes external marketization and internal marketization. Among them, the external marketization includes the current PPP model; the internal marketization includes the state-owned enterprises engaged in public utilities all over the country to improve efficiency and pay more attention to operational capacity. " Xue Tao, partner of E20 environmental platform, said at 2015 Shanghai water industry hot spot forum.

        According to the statistics of E20 environmental platform, in the field of sewage treatment, in 2014, the proportion of marketization realized through PPP mode reached 52%. Among them, the large energy consumption of non market-oriented or local state-owned enterprises is 3.23%, while that of BOT mode is only 1.7%. Thus, market-oriented enterprises pay more attention to operational efficiency.

        Xue Tao believes that under the market-oriented trend, there will be four business opportunities in the field of sewage and sludge treatment technology.

        "The transformation of existing treatment facilities to save energy and reduce consumption provides business opportunities for environmental protection enterprises. Driven by marketization, many enterprises have begun to pay attention to energy conservation and consumption reduction of fixed facilities for sewage and sludge treatment. " He said.

        At the same time, the expansion of sewage treatment plant also provides huge business opportunities. Xue Tao said that in the future, China's urbanization rate will increase from 54.77% to 60%, and the urban population will increase from 602 million to 659 million. This will bring more black and odorous water treatment problems, and the number of sewage treatment plants equipped in the city will also increase. "It is estimated that the capacity of China's sewage treatment plants will be expanded by 40 million tons. By 2020, the total capacity will reach 200 million tons."

        In addition, he said, there is still a lot of room for upgrading the sewage treatment plant. According to the "ten water rules", the sewage treatment level of sensitive areas and new facilities should meet the standard A. based on this, it is estimated that the upgrading of sewage treatment plants in China will bring 40 billion yuan of market.

        It is worth mentioning that the infrastructure construction of sludge treatment and disposal will present business opportunities. "Considering the continuous increase of sewage treatment capacity and the improvement of sludge treatment standards, the market scale will reach 80 billion yuan in the future." He said.

        But where does the money come from? Xue Tao said that taking Beijing as an example, the total cost of sewage treatment fee of Beijing Drainage Group is 2.3 yuan / ton. In fact, the sewage treatment fee charged by beipai group is only 1.36 yuan / ton, and a financial subsidy of 1 yuan / ton is needed. Therefore, in order to fulfill the responsibility of environmental governance, local governments need to provide financial subsidies.

        He is also optimistic about industrial development. "In fact, environmental protection enterprises are in a better development period. In 2015, all listed water companies, including engineering companies and investment companies, saw their operating revenue increase by nearly 30% over the same period in the first half of 2014. "