According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, the energy intensity of China in 2005, the most recent year for which data are available, was 35, 766 British thermal units per U.S. dollar.
For all the talk of securing energy reserves, China would still be as exposed to the movement of oil prices on the world's energy markets as any other country.
"Since 2001, efficiency gains alone have not been nearly sufficient to compensate for the effect of heavy industrialization, " says a 2006 paper by the China Energy Group of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California.
The future is coal-based: half of Asia's primary energy consumption, and 70% of China's, is coal.
The two largest holdings in the fund are Hong Kong-listed shares of China Shenhua Energyand China Coal Energy.
The four men were working for the British oil company Emerald Energy, a subsidiary of China's Sinochem, when they were snatched in March 2011.
And discussions of how China can shift to cleaner sources of energy also are part of expanding environmental and energy-related talks that began earlier this year when Vice President Al Gore visited China, the officials said.
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In view of the recent global economic turmoil and our limited financial resources, our business plan for 2010 has been to continue to focus on the marketing and distribution of energy efficient products in China.
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Fossil fuels supply 80% of the world's energy needs and, as the main driver of China's and India's growth, they will remain pre-eminent for decades.
While Europe attracts most of the investment, the renewable energy sectors of emerging economies such as India and China have been given the biggest boost.
PetroChina is China's most significant oil concern and is primarily owned jointly by the People's Republic of China and its largest state-owned energy enterprise, China National Petroleum Company (CNPC).
In its pursuit of energy deals, supplies of commodities and large construction projects, China has gone where many developed nations fear to go.
But Junfeng Li of the China Renewable Energy Industries Association has a more optimistic outlook.
However, China still relies heavily on using coal, which supplies 70 per cent of China's energy needs.
As some 70% of China's energy comes from coal, efforts to achieve this have been closely watched.
The effect of an energy saving subsidy in China is also expected to stimulate demand for LED TV products.
While the United States may not be able to afford the scale of support for clean energy that China can, it can compete by focusing on what it has always done best: innovation.
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At the end of of 2011, China energy majors Sinopec (SNP) and Cnooc (CEO) have expressed interest in acquiring a 30% stake in privately held Texas-based fracking company Frac Tech International to operate in the U.S. If that deal ever closed, China would gain the necessarily expertise to pursue shale gas exploration at home.
Regardless of China's plans to boost domestic energy production, the bottom line remains clear: China will divert considerable capital outlays to pay for imported energy in the coming decade.
Though the story is not new, the article is the latest indication of the alacrity with which China has emerged as a clean energy powerhouse in the span of just a few years.
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It is invested in a variety of different energy initiatives in everywhere from China to Australia to Kazakhstan.
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In green energy news, this week Lockheed Martin announced plans to construct the world's largest ocean thermal energy conversion plant off the southern coast of China.
In China, the Atomic Energy of Canada Limited and a clutch of Chinese outfits began an effort in mid-2009 to use thorium as fuel in nuclear reactors in Qinshan, China.
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Zhengrong Shi, chairman of China's solar energy giant Suntech Power and Tulsi Tanti of India's wind company Suzlon Energy have both netted billions in recent years by harvesting nature's own power sources.
China has made energy efficiency one of its top priorities, but implementing it is not proving easy.
According to the International Energy Agency, China now consumes 6m barrels of oil per day, 1m more than a year ago.
Duke Energy recently announced a memorandum of understanding with the China Huaneng Group, China's largest power generator, and the ENN Group, one of the nation's largest private energy companies.
One of the things that I discussed with the Mayor is how both cities can learn from each other on strategies around clean energy, because one of the issues that ties China and America together is how, with an expanding population and a concern for climate change, that we're able to reduce our carbon footprint.
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Elsewhere in the sector JA Solar Holdings and China Sun Energy, both based in China, were also enjoying sizeable gains in the price of their American depository receipts.
It will have 24% of the project, with China Shenhua Energy at 40% and a Russian-Mongolian ventures at 36%.
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