Electricity demand growth
RecordSTO-01M2KJ7XC3-BMVT0FP162-MBJPT1
European Union · 2025
IEA projected electricity demand growth in the European Union at about 1% in 2025.
Electricity demand growth: every country and year, and how it is measured
- Publisher
- IEA
- Authority tier
- T1 Official
- Locator
- Renewables, natural gas and nuclear are set to meet the additional demand as the world’s use of electricity rises for industry, appliances, air conditioning, data centres, EVs and more
- Retrieved
- 15 Sep 2026
- Status
- Verified
What the source says
By contrast, electricity consumption in the European Union is set to grow more slowly this year, at around 1%, though a modest acceleration is expected in 2026, the report shows.
Checked: the figure 1%is stated in this passage. If it does not match, the extraction is wrong and we want to know.
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APA
International Energy Agency. (2025). Global electricity demand to keep growing robustly through 2026 despite economic headwinds. Retrieved September 15, 2026, from https://www.iea.org/news/global-electricity-demand-to-keep-growing-robustly-through-2026-despite-economic-headwinds. Via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_01M2KJ7XC3BMVT0FP162MBJPT1
Other formats: MLA, Chicago, BibTeX
- MLA
- International Energy Agency. "Global electricity demand to keep growing robustly through 2026 despite economic headwinds." 2025, https://www.iea.org/news/global-electricity-demand-to-keep-growing-robustly-through-2026-despite-economic-headwinds. Accessed 15 Sept. 2026 via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_01M2KJ7XC3BMVT0FP162MBJPT1.
- Chicago
- International Energy Agency. "Global electricity demand to keep growing robustly through 2026 despite economic headwinds." 2025. https://www.iea.org/news/global-electricity-demand-to-keep-growing-robustly-through-2026-despite-economic-headwinds. Accessed September 15, 2026. Cited from StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_01M2KJ7XC3BMVT0FP162MBJPT1.
- BibTeX
- @misc{iea2025electricitymbjpt1, author = {{International Energy Agency}}, title = {Global electricity demand to keep growing robustly through 2026 despite economic headwinds}, year = {2025}, howpublished = {StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org}, url = {https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_01M2KJ7XC3BMVT0FP162MBJPT1}, note = {Original source: https://www.iea.org/news/global-electricity-demand-to-keep-growing-robustly-through-2026-despite-economic-headwinds. Accessed September 15, 2026.} }
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Other sources disagree
1 record reports a different value for this same indicator, region and period. We keep both rather than choosing or averaging. The disagreement is itself information.
| Value | Divergence | Source organisation | Document | Locator | Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.1% | +0.1 pp | IEA | Executive summary – Electricity Mid-Year Update 2025 | Global electricity demand on course to expand robustly in 2025 and 2026 despite economic headwinds | Open record |
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Primary source
- Publisher
- International Energy Agency · homepage ↗
- Authority tier
- Tier 1 · Multilateral Official
- Report
- Global electricity demand to keep growing robustly through 2026 despite economic headwinds
- Type
- Press release
- Published
- —
- Locator
- Renewables, natural gas and nuclear are set to meet the additional demand as the world’s use of electricity rises for industry, appliances, air conditioning, data centres, EVs and more
- Retrieved
- 15 September 2026
- Link status
- Reachable (HTTP 200)
- Report licence
- See source
Verification
- Status
- Verified
- Review protocol
- Editorial review
- Checked on
- 15 September 2026
- Last revision
- 27 September 2026
- Permanent URL
- /stat/stat_01M2KJ7XC3BMVT0FP162MBJPT1