A grading system for enterprises to evaluate their energy efficiency and carbon emission performance is launched in Huzhou, East China's Zhejiang province. [Photo/hz66.com]

Huzhou in East China's Zhejiang province recently launched a grading system for enterprises to evaluate their energy efficiency and carbon emission performances.

The system was built based on an online carbon emission monitoring platform built by the Huzhou branch of the State Grid.

Currently, the data of all companies above designated size in the city have been collected.

Companies are classified into five grades according to their carbon emissions, and they can check which grade they belong to by scanning a QR code.

If it is shown as Grade 1, it means that the carbon emissions of the enterprise are far lower than the average level of the industry.

Grade 3 means that its performance is close to the average level of the industry. For those rated as Grade 4 or Grade 5, the local power supply company will help them carry out technical transformation in accordance with their specific situations.

China has set the goal to hit peak emissions before 2030 and achieve carbon neutrality by 2060.

Huzhou has been working to reduce carbon emissions in recent years. By the end of 2020, the overall installed capacity of new energy power generators in Huzhou was 2 million kilowatts. Clean energy accounted for 45 percent of the city's total installed power generation capacity.