Giant King Grass has already been successfully grown in China. Giant King Grass has similar characteristics to sugar cane but is not a food crop as it develops cellulosic material rather than sugar. It has been demonstrated to have the highest energy yield per hectare of potential energy crops. The government of Thailand has set a target of 3,700 MW of biomass capacity by 2022.
It is usually represented as follows: Rate of Natural Increase = Crude Birth Rate-Crude Death Rate This version of the rate of natural increase shows net addition of people from births and deaths per thousand people in the population.
The average annual rate of growth over the forecast period varies from a high of 1.7 percent in the 2003-2004 time period, to around 1.0 percent or less for the period 2010 onwards. Commercial natural gas usage is forecast to grow from a 1999 level of 28 Bcf to a 2020 forecast level of 35 Bcf.