According to aforecast of 2020 energy demand, the total energy consumption will be 4850million tons standard coal, including 4050 million tons coal, 590 million tonsoil, 350 billion cubic meters natural gas and non-fossil energy will equate to750 million tons of standard coal.
He Yong, thedeputy director of the National Energy Administration’s Development PlanningDepartment, said at the analysis and forecasting meeting of economic andelectric power development in 2016, the 13th five-year energy planis being written, and the first draft has been finished. The department willseek advice soon, the plan will be proposed to the State Council in March orApril and is expected to be released in the first half of 2016.
The first policypriority is reducing excess capacity. New projects of a traditional energyindustry that already has excess capacity will be not approved, in principle.
