![]() ![]() That’s not because the world will be less “energy hungry.” People will continue to use energy in their daily lives, and happily, in the decades ahead, more people will have access to more modern appliances and on-the-grid housing. Our latest global energy perspective-part of a multiyear research effort examining the supply and demand of 55 types of energy across 30 sectors in some 146 countries-suggests that we’re beginning to see a decoupling between the rates of economic growth and energy demand, which in the decades ahead will become even more pronounced. ![]() That’s been the case since the dawn of the Industrial Revolution, if not long before.īut past is not always prologue. ![]() As economies grow, energy demand increases if energy is constrained, GDP growth pulls back in turn. It’s long been axiomatic that economic growth and energy demand are linked. ![]()
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