According to the latest China and the USA, the two best greenhouse gas pollution in the world can burn much more electricity forecast from the International Energy Agency (IEA). The highest escalate in global electricity demand has been expected for a long time in the next few years, and most of them come from recent data centers and the production of electric vehicles, batteries, solar panels and semiconductors in both countries.
This growth reflects wider changes around the world when it comes to the way people consume information and what their lives fix. More vehicles and home appliances currently operate on electricity. The recent AI tools led to the boom of hungry energy centers. This makes it more urgent to place recent energy sources, which can make sure that houses and companies have enough electricity without creating more pollution.
“The acceleration of global electricity demand emphasizes significant changes in energy systems around the world and the approach of the new era of electricity. But it also presents evolving challenges for the governments in ensuring safe, inexpensive and sustainable supply of electricity, “said Keisuke Sadamori, director of IEA energy markets, said on Friday on Friday press release.
In the world, it is expected that the escalate in demand will be equal to adding more than the entire annual electricity consumption in Japan each year from now to 2027, according to IEA. Most of this growth comes from countries whose economies are considered developing or emerging, including China. But the so -called “advanced” economies, including the US, also start consuming more electricity than in the past.
“The acceleration of global electricity demand emphasizes significant changes in energy systems around the world and the approach of the new era of electricity.”
It should be noted that the growing demand for electricity does not necessarily correlate with economic growth. According to IEA, electricity consumption has increased faster than its economy since 2020. The production of solar panels, EV and battery is an essential reason; These three industries have constituted one third of the escalate in the demand for electricity in recent years. The Chinese manufacturer of BY BYSLA rivals when it comes to selling the most electric cars in the world. Solar supply chains are still concentrated in ChinaIN Despite trade sanctions against products related to accusations abuse of work and human rights In the province of Xinjiang. And on Monday, China announced recent Rules for increasing battery production.
Artificial intelligence is also a enormous part of history. Deepseek based in China has recently announced significant progress in its AI models. This includes significant benefits in the field of energy efficiency, which causes greater uncertainty as to how much energy AI can utilize in the future. Despite this, IEA claims that the consumption of electricity by data centers in China can double by 2027. According to IEA, more electricity in China in China.
Electricity demand or over the years in advanced economies, including in the USA, Canada, the European Union, Japan and Korea. Even in the case of economic growth, it has been so since around 2009 thanks to the development of more energy -saving technologies. Now IEA expects the demand will escalate with the escalate in the number of data centers, EV, electric heat pumps and air conditioners suck electricity from the energy networks.
After China, the United States currently utilize the most electricity and create the most greenhouse gas emissions that cause climate change. The demand for electricity fell by 1.8 percent in 2023, but it was reflected last year and it is expected to escalate by an average of about 2 percent each year by 2027. It may sound like a compact percentage, but it consists of an equivalent total demand for electricity in California, California for over three years. Data centers drive this trend and are planning companies Build a new gas infrastructure And develop recent nuclear reactors to satisfy the growing demand from data centers. General artificial intelligence also has Increased demand for semiconductorsIt is forecasted that the production of chip is burned by growing amounts of electricity in the USA.
Electrification – obtaining more buildings and transport methods to electricity – is not necessarily a bad thing, as long as electricity comes from cleaner energy sources. Both China and the US are bulky fossil fuel users, and fossil fuels produce about 60 percent of the electric mixture of each country. The Trump administration has just abandoned American climate goals, instead favors the development of oil and gas and efforts to make the US “the capital of the world”.
Nevertheless, pollution does not have to escalate the demand for electricity. They are already with shining and land wind farms The cheapest new sources of electricity In most of the world, renewable energy is growing rapidly. Renewable energy sources are on the right path to overcoming coal and generating over a third of electricity that the world uses this year and can meet up to 95 percent of the recent demand for electricity by 2027, says IEA. Expects “record” generation of electricity from both renewable energy sources and nuclear reactors at the same time. This leads to the very hope of the forecast IEA-that the emissions of carbon heating planets from the production of electricity could be around the world over the next few years.