Global Demand Growth of Power Generation, Input Choices and Supply Security

Kenichi Matsui

The Energy Journal, 1998, vol. 19, issue 2, 93-108

Abstract: The anticipated global demand growth for energy, and electricity in particular, is mapped for the coming 20 years. Five critical issues implied by this forecast are then spelled out: uncertainty, security of energy supply, energy financing, and the role of nuclear and renewable energy. Finally, based on a review of the energy revolutions which the human race has experienced during history, the paper sketches a long term energy future. It suggests the possibility of a new energy era in the 21st century with electricity and hydrogen as the main final energy and nuclear and renewables as the main primary energy, providing, coincidentally, a solution to the CO2 issues that loom so importantly at the end of the 20th century.

Keywords: Electricity generation; energy security; carbon dioxide emissions; nuclear energy; Renewables (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1998
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DOI: 10.5547/ISSN0195-6574-EJ-Vol19-No2-5

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