@book{58810,
keywords = {China, Energy, CO2},
author = {David Fridley and Mark D Levine and Hongyou Lu and Cecilia Fino-Chen},
title = {Key China Energy Statistics 2014},
abstract = {
2012 Highlights
- China accounted for 20\% of global energy consumption.
- Energy grew 51\% percent as fast as GDP.
- China accounted for more than 20\% of global energy-related CO2 emissions.
- China{\textquoteright}s per capita CO2 emissions were 6 tonnes/person,
- 32\% percent above the world average but 65\% below that of the United States.
- China accounted for a staggering 47 percent of total world coal consumption.
- In contrast, oil consumption was 11 percent of world demand and natural gas, 4 percent.
- Since 2000, natural gas consumption grew at a rate of 15 percent per year.
- China{\textquoteright}s Western region continues to be the dominant source of increased production of oil and natural gas.
- China built 88 GW of power plants, of which about 60 percent were coal-based. To date, about 35\% of all global coal-fired ;power generation capacity has been built in China.
- China built 14.6 GW of wind power, accounting for about 32\% percent of world capacity additions.
- China installed 1.1 GW of solar power, 4\% percent of world capacity additions.
- Imports of natural gas jumped 40\% to 63 billion cubic meters (including a 50\% increase in pipeline gas from Central Asia), crude oil imports rose 7\% to 5.4 million barrels/day, and coal imports rose 29\% to 234 million tonnes.
},
year = {2014},
month = {11/2014},
institution = {Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory},
publisher = {Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory},
address = {Berkeley, CA},
}