David Fridley

Mr. Fridley has 25 years of experience working and living in China. Prior to 1993, Mr. Fridley led the China Energy Project at the East-West Center in Hawaii primarily in the area of petroleum supply and demand, refinery analysis and modeling, international oil trade and energy policy, and concurrently was a consultant with Fesharaki Associates. From 1993 to 1995, he worked as Business Development Manager in refining and marketing for Caltex China. Currently, Mr. Fridley is a staff scientist and deputy leader of the China Energy Group at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory where his research involves extensive collaboration with the Chinese on end-use energy efficiency, industrial energy use, government energy management programs, data compilation and analysis, medium and long term energy policy research. He is a Mandarin speaker.

In the News:

• David Fridley on the limitations of coal reserves in “The End of Cheap Coal”, Nature, November 17, 2010
• David Fridley on a new way to look at energy consumption in a city in “Berkeley Lab Creates New Energy Model For Chinese Cities”, Power Online, October 6, 2010
• David Fridley on comparing manufacturing in China to the European Union in “China Fears Consumer Impact on Global Warming”, New York Times, July 4, 2010
• David Fridley on China’s cement use in “China’s infrastructure gains affect energy”, UPI, May 20, 2010
• David Fridley and Nate Aden in “Urban Form, Behavior Energy Modeling in China: Sim City for Real?”, Worldchanging, February 16, 2010

Additional Information:

• David Fridley’s homepage

Publications:

• Estimating Total Energy Consumption and Emissions from China’s Commercial and Office Buildings
• China’s Coal: Demand, Constraints, and Externalities
• China’s Building Energy Use
• Energy Use in China: Sectoral Trends and Future Outlook