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China's GDP and energy demand decoupling: temporary or structural?
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Report summary
China is in a key phase of transition. In 2014, the relationship between GDP growth and energy demand growth diverged sharply. While GDP grew by 7.4%, power demand expanded by only 3.8% and diesel demand actually contracted for the first time in a decade. One of the most critical questions now facing global energy markets is whether this decoupling is temporary or structural?
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Table of contents
- Executive Summary
- Introduction
- China’s GDP: the rise of the consumer
- Power: a barometer of economic growth or a measure of structural change?
- Coal demand: still king, but under pressure
- Gas demand: cyclical factors playing a bigger role than structural changes
- Oil demand: a tale of two products
- Conclusion
Tables and charts
This report includes 10 images and tables including:
Images
- Disproportionate fall in China's energy demand
- China's GDP rebalancing
- Urban China population by region
- China's geographical rebalancing
- China power elasticity
- China power demand by sector
- Coastal China generation
- China gas demand growth 2011-2014*
- China 2014 diesel demand by sector
- China GDP, gasoline and diesel demand growth
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