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World Energy Usage to Grow by 49% by year 2035


According to the United States Energy Information Administration (EIA), the world energy usage is expected to grow by 49% percent by 2035. India and China will make up 20% of the growth. The United States growth is expected to drop from 21% to 16% of the worlds usage. The industrial sector is stated to uses more energy then any other sector as much as 50%, in a report by the EIA.

Other points mentioned in the report:
* Petroleum and other liquid fuels will remain the largest energy source worldwide through 2035, although higher oil prices are expected to erode their share of total energy use from 35 percent in 2007 to 30 percent in 2035.

* World natural gas consumption will increase 1.3 percent per year, from 108 trillion cubic feet in 2007 to 156 trillion cubic feet in 2035. Tight gas, shale gas and coalbed methane supplies will rise substantially, especially from the U.S., but also from Canada and China.

* World net electricity generation will jump by 87 percent, from 18.8 trillion kilowatthours (kWh) in 2007 to 35.2 trillion kWh in 2035. Renewables will be the fastest-growing source of new electricity generation, rising by 3 percent per year (with its share of world electricity generation increasing from 18 percent in 2007 to 23 percent in 2035), followed by coal-fired generation, which will increase by 2.3 percent per year. Generation from nuclear power will increase by 2 percent per year.

* In the absence of new national policies and/or binding international agreements that would limit or reduce greenhouse gas emissions, world coal consumption will increase from 132 quadrillion Btu in 2007 to 206 quadrillion Btu in 2035, at an average annual rate of 1.6 percent. China alone is projected to account for 78 percent of the total net increase in world coal use from 2007 to 2035.

* The EIA also forecasts energy-related emissions of carbon dioxide will jump by 43 percent, from 29.7 billion tons in 2007 to 42.4 billion tons in 2035.


Although it looks as if the United States is heading in the right direction by reducing their percentage of world consumption that does not mean we shouldn't continue to work harder to further reduce our consumption. Hopefully we can set a good example for the rest of the world in some of the best ways to by energy efficient. To read the full report click here.

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