ACEIZE Tracking the current state of Science and Technology

According to the International Energy Agency, China has overtaken the US as the world's largest energy consumer. The United States still blows them out of the water with our per-capita demand for juice.

According to Jonathan Watts in the UK Guardian:
China's use of coal, oil, wind and other sources of power more than doubled in the past decade to reach the equivalent of 2.26bn tonnes of oil in 2009, creeping past the US total of 2.17bn tonnes

China is currently a major importer of coal from Australia. Presently, 50% of the nation's oil is imported. This could, and according to the Guardian, does have major ramifications for international energy markets. The Chinese have becomes a huge driver in the price of energy world-wide. In the same vein, the Chinese could become a major global driver for clean energy technologies such as solar, wind, hydroelectric, and nuclear.