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Key China Energy Statistics 2016
Key China Energy Statistics helps you better understand China’s energy production, consumption, emissions and how it compares to the world.
Fridley, David, Hongyou Lu, and Liu Xu, 2017. key China Energy Statistics 2016, Berkeley, CA: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
Source: https://china.lbl.gov/publications/key-china-energy-statistics-2016
Picture source: http://thierrycohen.com
Note on the title picture: French artist Thierry Cohen imagines the world's largest cities under clear night skies and produces his series Villes éteintes (Darkened Cities). Cohen has visited nine cities including New York, San Francisco, Rio De Janeiro, and Hong Kong. Cohen captures an urban landscape, then travels to a less populated location at the same latitude with greater atmospheric clarity. Using this method, the skies above Shanghai are actually in Western Sahara.
The China Energy Group at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) has been developing impactful, science-based energy and environmental solutions collaboratively with China since 1988. This group started to published China Energy Databook (CED) in 1992 and it has continued revising and expanding the database, currently in its 9th edition (now available https://china.lbl.gov/research-projects/china-energy-databook). The Group also publishes this companion, booklet of Key China Energy Statistics. Here are highlights from the 2016 edition.
1 Supply
Coal accounts for the largest share of China’s total primary energy production.
Coal> oil > natural gas > hydro
China imports more coal than it exports. But domestic coal production dominates. The top 3 provinces of coal production in 2014 were Inner Mongolia, Shanxi, and Shannxi.
China imports more oil than it exports. In 2015, the top 5 countries exporting oil to China were Saudi Arabia, Rusia, Angola, Iraq and Oman, accounting for 60% of China’s crude oil import.
China’s Western region continues to be the dominant source of increased production of oil and natural gas.
In 2014, the top 5 provinces of natural gas production were Shaanxi, Xinjiang, Inner Mongolia, Sichuan and Jilin.
China added 113 gigawatts (GW) of new power plant generation capacity, of which 48 percent was fossil-fuel-based. Wind power capacity rose by 20 GW and solar photovoltaic (PV) capacity by 9 GW. Wind generation accounted for 22 percent of the global total, and PV was 16 percent of the global total.
Between 1980-2014, coal remains to be the main source of electricity production in China.
In 2014, the top 10 provinces of electricity production were Sichuan, Hubei, Guangdong, Guizhou, Guangxi, Fujian, Hunan, Zhejiang, Gansu, and Qinghai, accounting for 74% the national total.
2 Consumption
China’s total primary energy consumption reached 4.26 billion tonnes of coal equivalent (tce), up 2.1% over 2013, and accounting for 23 percent of global energy consumption.
Similar to the energy production, coal is the dominant source of energy consumption in China.
Primary energy grew only 29 percent as fast as the rate of GDP growth.
Between 1980 and 2015, China’s energy consumption per unit of GDP has been steadily decreasing.
But in the same period, China’s energy consumption per capita has been increasing especially since 2000.
China accounted for over half of total world coal consumption.
In contrast, China’s oil consumption was 12 percent of world demand and natural gas was 5.5 percent.
Since 2000, China’s natural gas consumption grew at a rate of 15.3 percent per year.
3 Emission
China accounted for 27.5 percent of global energy-related CO2 emissions. China’s per capita CO2 emissions were 6.6 tonnes/person, 49 percent above the world average but 59 percent below that of the United States.
Industry accounts for the largest share of energy-related CO2 emissions.
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