What Carbon Control Could Mean For Electricity Generation

摘要

If government policies worldwide continue as they were in mid-2008, electricity demand can be expected to grow through 2030 at an average rate of 1% per year in the US, 1.2% in OECD Europe, 0.7% in Japan, and a staggering 4.6% in China and 5.7% in India, according to the International Energy Agency's (IEA) latest World Energy Outlook. By the end of the forecast period, the developed countries of the OECD would together be consuming 11,843 terawatt hours of electricity annually, up from 4,740 TWh now, while countries outside that group would dominate the sector, using 16,298 TWh, up from just 2,059 TWh now. China alone would be consuming 6,958 TWh, the most of any country, leaving the US well behind at 4,723 TWh.