Electricity consumption
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28,600terawatt-hours
Global · 2025
Electricity consumption worldwide stood at 28,600 terawatt-hours in 2025 (IEA).
- Publisher
- IEA
- Authority tier
- T1 Official
- Locator
- Industry, electric vehicles, air conditioning and data centres continue to spur robust increases in electricity use around the world
- Retrieved
- 15 Sep 2026
- Status
- Verified
What the source says
Global electricity consumption is projected to reach 30,700 terawatt-hours (TWh) in 2027, compared with 28,600 TWh in 2025.
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- APA
- International Energy Agency. (2025). Global electricity demand growth set to accelerate as power systems adjust to recent shocks. Retrieved September 15, 2026, from https://www.iea.org/news/global-electricity-demand-growth-set-to-accelerate-as-power-systems-adjust-to-recent-shocks. Via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_01M2KJ7XC42G6MK2ANJH18YFAQ
- MLA
- International Energy Agency. "Global electricity demand growth set to accelerate as power systems adjust to recent shocks." 2025, https://www.iea.org/news/global-electricity-demand-growth-set-to-accelerate-as-power-systems-adjust-to-recent-shocks. Accessed 15 Sept. 2026 via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_01M2KJ7XC42G6MK2ANJH18YFAQ.
- Chicago
- International Energy Agency. "Global electricity demand growth set to accelerate as power systems adjust to recent shocks." 2025. https://www.iea.org/news/global-electricity-demand-growth-set-to-accelerate-as-power-systems-adjust-to-recent-shocks. Accessed September 15, 2026. Cited from StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_01M2KJ7XC42G6MK2ANJH18YFAQ.
- BibTeX
- @misc{iea2025electricity18yfaq, author = {{International Energy Agency}}, title = {Global electricity demand growth set to accelerate as power systems adjust to recent shocks}, year = {2025}, howpublished = {StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org}, url = {https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_01M2KJ7XC42G6MK2ANJH18YFAQ}, note = {Original source: https://www.iea.org/news/global-electricity-demand-growth-set-to-accelerate-as-power-systems-adjust-to-recent-shocks. Accessed September 15, 2026.} }
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- Publisher
- International Energy Agency · homepage ↗
- Authority tier
- Tier 1 · Multilateral Official
- Report
- Global electricity demand growth set to accelerate as power systems adjust to recent shocks
- Type
- Press release
- Published
- —
- Locator
- Industry, electric vehicles, air conditioning and data centres continue to spur robust increases in electricity use around the world
- Retrieved
- 15 September 2026
- Link status
- Reachable (HTTP 200)
- Report licence
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Verification & Integrity
- Audit status
- Verified
- Review protocol
- Editorial review
- Checked on
- 15 September 2026
- Last revision
- 15 September 2026
- Archival URI
- /stat/stat_01M2KJ7XC42G6MK2ANJH18YFAQ