TY - SER KW - China KW - Energy KW - CO2 AU - David Fridley AU - Mark D Levine AU - Hongyou Lu AU - Cecilia Fino-Chen AB -

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’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’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.

CY - Berkeley, CA DA - 11/2014 N2 -

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’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’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.

PB - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory PP - Berkeley, CA PY - 2014 TI - Key China Energy Statistics 2014 ER -