As the usage of ICT products and services is growing exponentially, electricity consumption will also increase in a similar manner.
The electricity industry is growing and the global electricity consumption in 2025 is estimated to be around 23.1 trillion kWh.
In the 1990's alone, manufacturing output expanded by 41percentt, while industrial electricity consumption grew by only 11percentt.
During the period 1991 2011, global electricity consumption grew by 81.9%, substantially faster than the 51.4% growth of total primary energy consumption [1].
Dana Younger, chief renewable energy specialist in the infrastructure department at the IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, defended the project: "In Mexico electricity consumption is growing and future power generation is projected to be mainly based on coal, with greenhouse gas emissions projected to rise 230% by 2020 compared to 2008 if the Government of Mexico does not foster renewables.
This is a region where electricity consumption is growing rapidly; up 4.6% in 2015 for more than 370 million people.
During this period, the G.D.P. grew 60percentt as fast as electricity consumption, the highest recorded level among industrialized nations.
In total, the report predicts that electricity consumption will grow by more than 70% to 2040, although 550 million people will still not have access, and that renewables will overtake coal as the largest source of power generation by the early 2030s.
In addition to these infrastructure projects, Brazil is expecting electricity consumption to grow more than 60percentt between 2009 and 2019, requiring total investment of more than $128 billion.
Among the world's 12 most rapidly growing economies over the last 10 years, the G.D.P. has grown only 45percentt as fast as electricity consumption.
