{"id":415260,"date":"2026-01-17T12:09:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T12:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/415260\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T12:09:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T12:09:08","slug":"chinas-electricity-consumption-soars-to-record-in-2025-surpasses-10-trillion-kwh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/415260\/","title":{"rendered":"China&#8217;s electricity consumption soars to record in 2025, surpasses 10 trillion kWh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shanghai: China&#8217;s \u200delectricity consumption climbed 5% to a \u2060record high last year, surpassing 10 trillion kilowatt-hours for the \u200cfirst time, \u200cthe <a ref=\"dofollow\" data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#News#href\" href=\"https:\/\/m.economictimes.com\/topic\/national-energy-administration\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">National Energy Administration<\/a> said \u200con Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The 10.37 kWh milestone exceeded the combined consumption of the European Union, Russia, \u200bIndia and \u200bJapan in 2024, according to \u200cstate \u200dmedia reports.<\/p>\n<p>Rising demand \u200dfor electricity in China has \u200cbeen driven in large part by high-tech industries.<br \/>Electric power use by the internet and related services sector surged \u200dmore than 30% in the first 11 \u200dmonths \u2060of \u20602025, while demand from manufacturers of new energy vehicles, which includes EVs and hybrid cars, jumped more than 20%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shanghai: China&#8217;s \u200delectricity consumption climbed 5% to a \u2060record high last year, surpassing 10 trillion kilowatt-hours for the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":415261,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[45,49,48,174490,174494,46,174493,174492,163728,174491],"class_list":{"0":"post-415260","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-china-electricity-consumption","12":"tag-china-energy-market","13":"tag-economy","14":"tag-electric-power-use-growth","15":"tag-electricity-consumption-statistics-2025","16":"tag-national-energy-administration","17":"tag-record-high-electricity-usage"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=415260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415260\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/415261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}