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CHINA is again grabbing the energy efficiency headlines after the People’s Republic revised the gains they have made already in energy efficiency over the last four years, with the new calculations purporting that the country has almost achieved it’s five year target early.

Although the revised figures seem to put China ahead of their targets, reversals in reducing emission targets earlier this year has meant hard measures to improve energy efficiency and reduce greenhouse gases.

China undertook to cut the amount of fuel needed to generate each unit of gross domestic product - their energy intensity – by 20 per cent within five years, from the 2005 level.

In 2009 China was the world's top emitter of greenhouse gases, consuming 0.1077 tonnes of standard coal for each 1,000 yuan of GDP, down 3.61 per cent from 2008, the National Bureau of Statistics said yesterday.

The government reported in February that energy intensity in 2009 fell 2.2 per cent from 2008, hence this is a considerable revision.
They have also revised energy intensity for 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008 to 0.1276, 0.1241, 0.1179 and 0.1118 tonnes of standard coal for each 1,000 yuan of GDP, respectively, revising year-on-year changes of -2.74 per cent, -5.04 per cent and -5.2 per cent for 2006, 2007 and 2008, respectively, according to the Chinese government.

Previously Chinese official data showed energy intensity falling by 1.79 per cent in 2006, 4.2 per cent in 2007 and 4.59 per cent in 2008. These numbers have already been revised at least once, putting China closer to achieving its target.

This latest calculation reveals that energy intensity fell by a total of nearly 16 per cent over the past four years, compared with the government’s estimate of 14.38 per cent in the previous reports.
This leaves Beijing well placed to declare it will fulfill its five-year target, but the government's aim is complicated by efficiency losses during the first quarter of this year, when energy intensity rose for the first time since 2006, up 3.2 per cent from a year earlier.

Premier Wen Jiabao stated in May:

"The reverse greatly increased the difficulty of our work for the last three quarters of this year".

Hence, the Chinese government have pushed out a series of measures, including pricing policies and administrative orders to improve energy efficiency.

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Friday 16th July 2010