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TABLE 1. ESTIMATED AVAILABLE ENERGY SOURCES

  Estimated available energy sources
 Fossil Fuels Nuclear  Renewables
  Solid1 Liquid2 Gas3 Uranium4 Hydro5 Other
Renewable6
 Total amount in specific units* 635.00 1.98 9,003.00 748 0.01 1.85
Total amount in exajoule (EJ) 9.57 0.08 0.35 0.409 — —
* Solid: Million tonne; Liquid, Gas: Million m3; Uranium: Metric tonnes; Hydro, Renewable: TW.
** light water reactor open cycle assumption.
***CNE estimates. Includes geothermal, wind power, biomass and small-scale hydraulic energy(<20MW).
—: data not available.
Source: Energy Policy: New Guidelines (National Energy Commission, 2008).

TABLE 2. ENERGY STATISTICS

  1980 1990 2000 2010 2013 2014



2015
Compound Annual Growth Rate (%) 2000 to 2015
Energy Consumption**              
Total 0.418 0.599 1.054 1.343 1.718 1.586 1.585 3.4
Solids*** 0.052 0.110 0.134 0.203 0.316 0.322 0.315 9.0
Liquids 0.222 0.286 0.488 0.661 0.724 0.704 0.661 2.4
Gases 0.044 0.060 0.185 0.188 0.191 0.158 0.203 0.6
Nuclear — — — — — — — —
Hydro 0.026 0.032 0.069 0.090 0.071 0.083 0.085 1.5
Other Renewables**** 0.074 0.111 0.178 0.200 0.416 0.319 0.321 5.4
Energy Production            
Total 0.304 0.339 0.368 0.375 0.604 0.575 0.566 3.6
Solids*** 0.027 0.064 0.011 0.010 0.064 0.122 0.092 49.1
Liquids 0.069 0.039 0.012 0.010 0.016 0.020 0.011 –0.6
Gases 0.107 0.092 0.095 0.076 0.038 0.031 0.055 –2.8
Nuclear — — — — — — — —
Hydro 0.027 0.033 0.072 0.079 0.071 0.084 0.085 1.2
Other Renewables**** 0.074 0.111 0.178 0.200 0.416 0.318 0.323 5.4
Net import (Import-Export)              
Total              

TABLE 3: INSTALLED CAPACITY, ELECTRICITY PRODUCTION AND CONSUMPTION





1990




2000




2010




2015




2016
Compound Annual Growth Rate (%) 2000 to Last Year
Capacity of electrical plants
(GW(e))

G/N
- Thermal 1.283 4.827 8.080 10.160 10.361 7.2
- Nuclear — — — — — —
- Hydro 2.486 4.272 5.230 5.730 6.393 3.1
- Wind — — 0.180 0.300 1.102 32.0
- Geothermal — — — — — —
- Other Renewable 0.069 0.105 0.460 0.840 4.189 243.1
- Total 3.838 9.204 13.960 17.020 22.045 8.7
Electricity production (TW.h) G/N
- Thermal 9.440 19.859 21.668 30.856 47.281 8.6
- Nuclear — — — — — —
- Hydro 8.930 19.000 21.38 19.737 19.208 0.1
- Wind — — 0.325 0.547 2.216 36.4
- Geothermal — — — — — —
- Other Renewable — 0.910 10.000 10.299 5.171 29.3
- Total** 18.370 39.769 53.369 61.439 73.877 5.4
Total electricity consumption
(TW.h)
— 36.292 56.946 68.866 n.a. 6.0

TABLE 4: ENERGY RELATED RATIOS

1990 2000 2010 2015 2016
Energy consumption per capita (GJ/capita) 45.45 68.45 62.95 65 *
Electricity consumption per capita
(kW.h/capita)
1 345.7 2 490.2 3 331.3 3 814 3 820
Electricity production/Energy production 19.54% 40.38% 59.14% 39.08% *
Nuclear/Total electricity — — — — —
Ratio of external dependency 47.58% 68.37% 75.93% 67,8% *