China, US Electricity Demand Surge

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Electricity demand surges for the world’s two biggest polluters

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China and the US are the world’s two biggest greenhouse gas polluters, according to the latest forecast from the International Energy Agency .

The steepest rise in global electricity demand in a while is expected over the next few years .

Data centers and manufacturing of electric vehicles, batteries, solar panels, and semiconductors are driving the rise.

Renewables are on track to beat coal and generate more than a third of the electricity the world uses this year and could meet as much as 95 percent of new electricity demand through 2027 , the IEA says. It anticipates “record-high” electricity generation from both renewables and nuclear reactors over the same period. That leads to a very hopeful prediction from the IEA — that planet-heating carbon dioxide emissions from generating electricity could plateau globally sometime in the next few years ..

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