Our World Faces ‘Unprecedented’ Spike in Electricity Demand
February 14th, 2025Via: The Register:
The world is going to need a lot of new electricity generation in the next three years to keep up with an “unprecedented” spike in demand, says the International Energy Agency (IEA) – and it’s going to be a tough goal to meet.
The IEA’s report examines the current state of the electricity market and how it’s likely to change between 2025 and 2027, forecasting that the world is going to need an additional 3,500 terawatt-hours of energy generation to meet rising demand over the next three years. That, the IEA noted, is the equivalent of adding more electricity consumption than Japan, per year, between now and 2027.
To put that into further perspective, Japan is the fifth largest consumer of electricity in the world, eating up more than 1,000 TWh of electricity per year. That’s a lot of juice to add to global energy generation in a mere three years, and most of that is going to be in emerging markets, the IEA said.
Ok, what are they trying to sell us now….
Or to justify taking away from us to give to industry/govt? AI goes online, Starwars goes up, underwater ‘research’ stations go down, we go dark?