Hannah Ritchie at Sustainability by Numbers:
I often hear about “skyrocketing” demand for electricity in countries like the United States (here’s just one example).
There is no doubt that electricity demand will rise (or, in many countries, already has started rising). This is often a good thing as it represents a shift from fuels to electricity, which is another huge part of the energy transition.
There is a lot of hand-wringing about whether countries will be capable of meeting this extra demand. But that made me curious about how unprecedented this growth really is. How do current and future growth rates compare to the past? Is it really the case that electricity demand will “skyrocket”, or are we really just talking about a fairly quick increase?
Let’s run through some numbers for the US to get some perspective.
More here.
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