Primary energy consumption would matter if energy efficiency did not exist. Generally speaking all sorts of industries use electricity way more efficiently in t

Primary energy consumption would matter if energy efficiency did not exist. Generally speaking all sorts of industries use electricity way more efficiently in the US, which is why that number has not really budged; it is not really providing economic output to replace all our LEDs to inefficient incandescents, for example. China's graph looks substantially different because it started from an extremely low base living standard.