This work was supported by the Hewlett Foundation, under Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Contract No. DE-AC02-05CH11231.

For the past 20 years, Energy Foundation China (EFC) has provided funding to Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in support of data gathering and analysis, policy analysis, and development and application of the China 2050 Demand Resources Energy Analysis Model (DREAM). This report relies heavily on much of the work that EFC has funded over this period of time.

We would like to thank Laura Cozzi and Zakia Adam of the International Energy Agency for providing the international comparison data used in Chapter 1. We would like to thank the 16 Chinese experts from the following organizations who were interviewed as part of the information-gathering for this report: China Building Energy Efficiency Association (CABEE), China Building Materials Academy (CBMA), China Cement Association (CCA), China Council for an Energy Efficient Economy (CCEEE), China Iron and Steel Association (CISA), China National Institute of Standardization (CNIS), Energy Research Institute (ERI), Guandong Power Company, Innovative Green Development Program (iGDP), Innovation Center for Energy and Transportation (iCET), International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT), National Center for Climate Change Strategy and International Cooperation (NCSC), and the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC).

We would like to expressly thank the following reviewers for their helpful comments on earlier versions of this report.

• Sonia Aggarwal, Energy Innovation

• Laura Cozzi, International Energy Agency

• Barbara Finamore, Natural Resources Defense Council

• Niklas Höhne, NewClimate Institute

• Jianguo Liu, Energy Research Institute of China’s National Development and Reform Commission (on secondment to the International Energy Agency)

• Mark Levine, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

• Sha Fu, Energy Foundation China

• Jonathan Sinton, World Bank

• Alan Yu, Center for American Progress

Suggested Citation

Zhou, N., Lu, H., Khanna, N., Liu, X., Fridley, D., Price, L., Shen, B., Feng, W., Lin, J., Szum, C., Ding, C., 2020. China Energy Outlook: Understanding China’s Energy and Emissions Trends. Berkeley, CA: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.