Dave Jones, a director at global energy thinktank Ember, said that although the world’s growing stock of clean energy projects would keep pace with the faster than expected growth in electricity use, it would not rise fast enough to displace the existing fossil fuel electricity used today.
Keisuke Sadamori, a director at the IEA, said: “The acceleration of global electricity demand highlights the significant changes taking place in energy systems around the world and the approach of a new age of electricity.
The influential Paris-based agency said the “new age of electricity” was dawning as a result of the climate crisis as more people begin to use air conditioning to cope with extreme temperature rises and economies begin to turn away from using fossil fuels in favour of cleaner power.
The International Energy Agency has raised its predictions for the world’s rising demand for electricity, pegging the growth at almost 4% a year until 2027, up from its previous forecast of 3.4% year.
The world’s electricity use will grow every year by more than the amount consumed annually by Japan because of a surge in electric transport, air conditioning and datacentres, according to the world’s energy watchdog.
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