Post Carbon Fellow David Fridley is one of the team at Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)  behind a new edition of the China Energy Databook.

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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. “Like many other people, we were writing articles around 2000 about the decline in China’s energy consumption in the late 1990s. Now the decline has completely disappeared—they found it. It was underreported.”

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China Energy Group members Hongyou Lu, David Fridley, John Romankiewicz and Lynn Price (left to right). Photo by Roy Kaltschmidt/Berkeley Lab