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Transport is usually the fastest growing sector for energy demand in emerging and newly industrialized countries, which are the focus of this analysis1. Thus, as transport’s share in final energy consumption2 increases, the sector becomes ever more crucial for understanding the changing energy demand landscape in emerging countries.
The goal of this month’s brief by Bruno Lapillonne, Enerdata co-founder and internationally recognised expert on energy demand and efficiency, is to shed light on this topic.

Energy consumption from transport is growing rapidly in emerging countries. It increased on average 7 to 8% per year in China and India between 2000 to 2017. In Turkey, Malaysia, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the UAE, annual growth was between 4 and 5%. Furthermore, because the sector consumes primarily fossil fuels, transport has an outsized impact on GHG emissions relative to its portion of a country’s total energy demand. In four of the countries analysed, transport is by far the highest consuming sector, accounting for up to 45% of final energy consumption3, and making its emissions impact even more important.

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OPEC and non-OPEC oil producers have reached an agreement to jointly reduce crude oil production by 1.2 mb/d, effective as of January 2019 for an initial period of six months, in an attempt to ease the global glut and strengthen low prices. This amount will be shared among OPEC countries (0.8 mb/d) and non-OPEC countries such as Russia (0.4 mb/d). However,….

Polish coking coal producer JSW (Jastrzębska Spółka Węglowa) has unveiled plans to increase its output by 2.5 Mt/year to 3 Mt/year through acquisitions. Its 2030 production target has been set at 18 Mt/year, much above the current 14.8 Mt/year (including all types of coal). However, the share of thermal coal in its production will dwindle from the current 25% to 10%.

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Russian state-run energy company Gazprom has commissioned the 45 bcm/year Ukhta-Torzhok 2 gas pipeline located between the Yamal peninsula and the gulf of Finland (Russia). The construction of the 970 km long project started in 2015. It is meant to supply additional gas from the Yamal peninsula to northwestern Russia for the needs of domestic consumers and for export purposes,…

Chinese nuclear group China General Nuclear (CGN) has installed the reactor pressure vessel (RPV) at the 1,080 MWe Hongyanhe-6 ACPR-1000 nuclear reactor, which is currently under construction in China’s Liaoning province.