{"id":18845,"date":"2013-11-12T22:37:44","date_gmt":"2013-11-12T22:37:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ecowatch.com\/?p=311866"},"modified":"2013-11-12T22:37:44","modified_gmt":"2013-11-12T22:37:44","slug":"global-energy-demand-to-grow-one-third-by-2035","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/global-energy-demand-to-grow-one-third-by-2035\/","title":{"rendered":"Global Energy Demand to Grow One-Third by 2035"},"content":{"rendered":null,"protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/ecowatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/out-150x150.jpeg\" alt=\"Graphic credit: International Energy Agency\"><\/p>\n[caption id=\"attachment_311889\" align=\"alignright\" width=\"360\"]<a href=\"http:\/\/ecowatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/out.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Graphic credit: International Energy Agency\" src=\"http:\/\/ecowatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/out.jpeg\" width=\"360\" height=\"216\"><\/a> Graphic credit: International Energy Agency[\/caption]\n<p>The International Energy Agency (IEA) released the 2013 edition of its annual <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iea.org\/newsroomandevents\/pressreleases\/2013\/november\/name,44368,en.html?utm_content=buffer045b8&amp;utm_source=buffer&amp;utm_medium=twitter&amp;utm_campaign=Buffer\" target=\"_blank\">World Energy Outlook<\/a> today, with much of the focus on what could happen in the next two decades.<\/p>\n<p>The organization believes that major changes will take place by 2035 when it predicts that total global energy demand will have grown&nbsp;by one-third since 2011.&nbsp;Demand for all forms of energy will grow, but the share of fossil fuels in the world&rsquo;s&nbsp;energy mix will drop from 82 percent to 76 percent in 2035. <a href=\"http:\/\/ecowatch.com\/category\/renewable-business\/\" target=\"_blank\">Renewable energy<\/a> and nuclear power will meet about 40 percent of the demand, and nearly half of the net increase in&nbsp;electricity generation will come from renewable sources.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Major changes are emerging in the energy world in response to shifts in economic growth, efforts at decarbonization and technological breakthroughs,&rdquo; said&nbsp;IEA Executive Director Maria van der Hoeven.&nbsp;&ldquo;We have the tools to deal with such profound market change.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Here are five more long-term predictions from the IEA:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<strong>Low prices for the U.S.<\/strong>: &#8220;Lower energy prices in the U.S. will place the country to reap an economic advantage, while higher costs for energy-intensive industries in Europe and Japan are set to be a heavy burden,&rdquo;&nbsp;said&nbsp;Fatih Birol, IEA Chief Economist. Most&nbsp;Chinese, Japanese or European industrial consumers pay nearly double the amount their U.S. counterparts pay, and that will continue to 2035, according to the report.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/ecowatch.com\/2013\/11\/07\/worlds-richest-countries-spent-500-billion-fossil-fuel-subsidies\/\" target=\"_blank\">Fossil fuel subsidies<\/a> continue<\/strong>: Two-thirds of the economic potential for energy efficiency will remain untapped in 2035 unless market barriers can be overcome. Fossil-fuel subsidies collectively present the largest barrier&mdash;they provided incentives for wasteful consumption at a cost of $544&nbsp;billion in 2012.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/ecowatch.com\/category\/climate-change-news\/\" target=\"_blank\">Climate change<\/a> looms<\/strong>: Carbon dioxide emissions are projected to rise by&nbsp;20 percent by 2035. The average long-term temperature increase would be 3.6 degrees celsius, or &#8220;far above the internationally agreed upon 2 degrees celsius,&#8221; the report says.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<strong>Renewables on the rise:&nbsp;<\/strong>Subsidies to the renewable energy sector will increase to $220 billion. The amount was $101 billion in 2012.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<strong>Coal demand grows<\/strong><strong>:&nbsp;<\/strong>Global demand for coal will have grown by 17 percent by 2035.&nbsp;India, Indonesia and China account for 90 percent&nbsp;of the growth in coal production.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;More of the IEA&#8217;s outlook is available in its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iea.org\/media\/executivesummaries\/WEO_2013_ES_English_WEB.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">executive summary<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><b>Visit EcoWatch&rsquo;s&nbsp;<\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/ecowatch.com\/category\/renewable-business\/\"><b>RENEWABLES<\/b><\/a><b>&nbsp;page for more related news on this topic.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/oi.vresp.com\/?fid=00b11039e0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"topnewsbanner1\" src=\"http:\/\/ecowatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/topnewsbanner1.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"120\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,57],"tags":[2892,12198,2913],"class_list":["post-18845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-green-building-posts","category-leed-news","tag-business","tag-featured-business","tag-renewables"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18845\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}