China Energy Group members Hongyou Lu, David Fridley, John Romankiewicz and Lynn Price (left to right) contributed to the 8th Edition of the China Energy Databook. (Photo by Roy Kaltschmidt/Berkeley Lab)
In the five years since the China Energy Group of the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) released its last edition of the China Energy Databook , China has achieved two dubious distinctions: it surpassed the United States in energy consumption and it surpassed the United States in energy-related emissions of carbon dioxide, becoming the world leader on both scores. With these important shifts in the global energy landscape, the eighth edition of the China Energy Databook is being released this week. The Databook is the most comprehensive publicly available resource known to exist covering China's energy and environmental statistics. The China Energy Group researchers have amassed an enormous trove of data from firsthand sources and organized much of it into a relational database, making it far more useful for research and analytical purposes. "We have gathered statistical information on energy and energy demand drivers from all different resources, such as the China Environment Yearbook, the Transportation Yearbook, the Power Yearbook, the Iron and Steel Yearbook, the Cement Almanac, statistics of oil companies and power companies," said Lynn Price, head of the China Energy Group. "A library collection like this doesn't exist anywhere else in the world." One of the most important changes in the new edition is that it captures the extensive retroactive changes China has made to its energy consumption data. "They used a lot more coal than they originally admitted to, several hundred million tons more," said David Fridley, one of the two lead editors of this and several previous Databooks .
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