China's coal consumption rose for a second year in a row in 2018, but coal&...
BEIJING - China’s coal consumption rose for a second year in a row in 2018, but coal’s share of total energy consumption fell below 60 percent for the first time as cleaner energy sources gained ground, official data showed on Thursday.
However, coal accounted for only 59 percent of China’s overall energy consumption last year, down 1.4 percentage points from 2017, while gas, nuclear power and renewable energy combined accounted for 22.1 percent, up 1.3 percentage points. “The good news is that renewable energy continued to grow rapidly in 2018, and new aggressive air pollution policies were introduced,” Lauri Myllyvirta, an analyst at environmental group Greenpeace, said in a note.
“The problem is that the government tries to stimulate the economy because it fears slowdowns,” he said. “But this just leads to higher energy consumption from resource-intensive industries such as construction.”
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