Sydney (Platts)--31Oct2010/1002 pm EDT/202 GMT

      
China's annual primary energy consumption will be kept to 4 billion-4.2
billion mt of standard coal by 2015, Jiang Bing, director of the development
and planning department of the National Energy Administration said Saturday,
according to a report from official news agency Xinhua.
     Primary energy refers to existing natural energy sources which do not
need processing, such as fossil fuels, nuclear fuels, biomass energy,
hydropower, wind power and solar power.
     China has adopted a low-carbon development strategy and plans to raise
the non-fossil energy ratio in its total primary energy consumption to 15% by
2020, and cut carbon dioxide emissions by 40-45% by 2020 from 2005 levels,
Jiang told a forum held by the State Grid Corporation of China. As a result,
primary energy consumption must be kept to below 4.2 billion mt in the next
five-year plan, which will run from 2011 to 2015, to achieve the two targets,
Jiang added.
     China's energy consumption now stands at 2.5 mt of standard coal per
capita. If left uncontrolled, consumption might rise above 7 billion mt of
standard coal in 2030, Jiang said.
     China's primary energy consumption topped 3.07 billion mt of standard
coal in 2009, up 30% from 2005, according to the NEA.
--Christine Forster, christine_forster@platts.com