Table 1
Comparison of energy intensity of thermal power generation.
Indicator Units International
advanced level
China Zhejiang
Average level
(2006)
Top-1000 enterprises
(144 thermal power
plants, 2006)
Large & medium size thermal
power plants (2005)
Smaller thermal power
plants above 6 MW (2006)
Coal consumption per unit
of thermal power generation
Grams of coal
equivalents / kWh
312 366 365 333 348
Source: All data except Zhejiang are taken from the Report on the State Energy use of the Top-1000 Enterprises (NDRC and NBS, 2007). The last two columns refer to theWhite Paper of
Energy in Zhejiang (Zhejiang Province Economic and Information Commission and Zhejiang Provincial Bureau of Statistics, 2007).