Analysis of China's current energy structure and trend of development: supply and demand

With the economic development, the demond for energy is growing in China, and the traditional non-renewable energy makes the energy transformation is imminent. In this paper, based on the fully understanding of our existing energy structure, and from the perspective of supply and demand, the author analysis the changes in the structure of future energy and gives the suggestion. The paper argues that China's energy structure will gradually turn to be comprehensive and diverse, but the cost and market constraints will obstruct the promotion of renewable energy sources. Therefore, the traditional high-carbon energy is still the main form of domestic energy consumptionin a very long period of time. Only by improving technology and using of the macro-control can reduce the costs and regulate the import and export, which can achieve sustainable development of changing from a high-carbon energy to low carbon. (C) 2011 Published by Elsevier Ltd. Selection and peer-review under responsibility of RIUDS