Trends and future demand for electric power generation

Electricity is versatile, clean to use, easy to distribute and supreme to control. As important, it is now established that electricity has better productivity in many applications than most other energy products. All this has led to the wider utilization of electricity and its replacement of other forms of energy in many uses. Demand for electricity is now growing globally at a rate higher than that of economic growth and at almost 1.5-2 times that of demand for primary energy sources. With the type of technologies and applications that already exist, there is nothing to handicap electricity´s advancement and it assuming a higher share of the energy market. This paper describes the world electricity scene, its new trends and orientation and the effect of all this on the global electric power generating system