Unione Petrolifera (UP), Italy's national association of oil companies, predicts that Italian electricity demand will increase by 0.5% annually in the period 2005-2010, by 2.0% annually between 2010 and 2015 and by 1.8% between 2015 and 2020. This is slower than the annual rates of 2.7% seen between 1995 and 2000 and 2.1% from 2000 to 2005. UP expects that demand in 2010 will be similar to that of last year, but will rise to 375 TWh in 2015 and to 409 TWh in 2020. rnA steady increase in demand from households and the tertiary sector is expected. Demand from the tertiary sector was 15.4% higher than that of industry in 2007 and will be 24.2% greater in 2020. Per capita demand is expected to rise from 4,132 kWh in 1990 to 5,703 kWh in 2008 and to 6,805 kWh in 2020.
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