China Top Energy Consumer
Posted on 20. Jul, 2010 by Raven Schneizer in World
China has become the world’s top energy consumer, overthrowing the previous leader the U.S, according to the International Energy Agency. China has already questioned the calculations.
According to the agency, China consumed the equivalent of more than 2.265 billion tons of oil within power sources consisting of coal, wind, solar, and oil. The U.S consumed 2.169 billion tons. Because of the nation’s ever-growing population and their manufacturing-based economy, China’s energy consumption has more than doubled since 2000, according to the IEA.
China’s Cabinet’s National Energy Administration has their doubts over the findings: “IEA’s data on China’s energy use is unreliable,” said Zhou Xian, adding that the agency “still lacked understanding about China’s relentless efforts to cut energy use and emissions, notably the country’s aggressive expansion of new energy development.”
In a report released by the National Energy Administration, China’s power consumption for last year was 2.132 billion tons of oil, which is considerably lower than the numbers found by IEA.
According to Fatih Birol of the IEA, “The trend is undeniable that the Chinese energy consumption is growing very strongly — which is very legitimate, by the way, considering their population — and the energy from the OECD countries, the U.S., Europe and Japan, is stagnating. They are two major undeniable trends,” Birol said. “There’s nothing specific from this year, it’s all the same methodologies we used before.”
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