Scaling Up Mine-Water Cooling System Across Residential Communities in Xuzhou

TLDR

• According to a national climate change plan for the 15th Five-Year Plan period (2026-2030) released last week, China aims to reduce carbon dioxide emissions per unit of GDP by 17 percent by 2030 from 2025 levels.Across.
• Even in its pilot phase, the system has already brought centralized, low-carbon cooling to nearly 100 households.For her apartment of about 100 square meters, Wang paid just 400 yuan (about 59 U.S. dollars) for the.
• In the city of Xuzhou, resident Wang Qingmei, 76, prepares meals in her kitchen without switching on an air conditioner.
• Unlike conventional air conditioners, the system requires no outdoor compressor units, which intensify the urban heat island effect, and uses no fluorinated refrigerants.It also cuts energy consumption by around 50.
• As summer heatwaves scorch parts of China, a city in east China's Jiangsu Province has launched the country's first residential centralized cooling project that uses water from abandoned coal mines, offering a.