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Half of all additions to China’s electricity generating capacity since 2013 have been renewables or nuclear.

Leader in electricity consumption. leader in solar power and in future EV sales according to most observers.

China remained the largest destination of energy investment. taking 21% of the global total.

The International Gas Union’s 2017 World LNG Report says Japan is the top importer of LNG. followed by South Korea. with China in third place.

This production growth rate will turn the United States from a net importer of oil into a net exporter by 2025.

Natural gas production turned upward in 2006 and would rise by 50% over the next decade.

Emissions in the power sector will be limited to a 5% rise by 2040.

The IEA projected China'.s gas imports at 280 Bcm in 2040. second only to the European Union. making China a ".linchpin of global gas trade.

The IEA estimates that U.S. crude oil is expected to rise until reaching a peak in the 2020s of about 17 million bpd.

WEO-2017 finds it is too early to write the obituary of oil.