11 JUNE 2026
Electrification continues to gather pace across transport, industry and residential demand with adoption rates trending structurally higher.
This is particularly true in China, as this chart illustrates.
It shows China’s electricity production since 2000.
A logarithmic scale (where the y-axis reflects percentage increases rather than simple absolute changes) has been used because the change has been so vast.
Growth in electricity production has slowed a little in recent years, reflecting the pandemic and the general maturing of China’s economy.
But the positive long-term trend is unlikely to change, given the rising energy demand from a large and still-growing economy.
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