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China’s Energy Efficiency Gains

February 27th, 2009 · 2 Comments

China fine tuned its 2008 “energy intensity” number yesterday and announced that the energy used to generate each dollar of gross domestic product fell 4.59 percent (to 1.107″ton of coal equivalents”/10,000RMB of GDP).  This is good news, but will still require over the next two years a combined 10.4% drop from the 2005 baseline to [...]

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Tags: 11th Five year Plan · carbon emissions · climate change · energy efficiency · energy policy · power generation