Clean Energy Fueling the Future
China Daily, November 28, 2013 Adjust font size:
Natural gas and renewable energy are poised for boom times in China over the coming decades, and they'll be key factors in the development of the nation's economy, a global energy agency said on Wednesday.
China's natural gas consumption will quadruple by 2035, becoming a driver of global demand for the fuel, according to a report released by the International Energy Agency in Beijing.
China consumed 147.1 billion cubic meters of natural gas in 2012, up 13 percent year-on-year.
"The rapid development of unconventional natural gas will continue to benefit North America, which is looking for opportunities to export these resources in the form of liquefied natural gas," said Maria van der Hoeven, executive director of the Paris-based IEA.
China is the largest potential buyer of that LNG.
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Turbine blades are hoisted onto a windmill at a wind farm in Hami, in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. Xinjiang is one of the biggest wind-power generating regions in China. The country is trying to increase the proportion of renewable energy in its total energy consumption mixture. [China Daily] |
