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FIGURE 16-1
World electricity consumption 1970-2015. (Source: U.S. Department of Energy, International
Energy Outlook 1997 with Projections to 2015, DOE Office of the Integrated Analysis and
Forecasting, Report No. DE-97005344, April 1997.)
FIGURE 16-2
Electricity consumption by industrialized and developing countries 1990-2015. (Source: U.S.
Department of Energy, International Energy Outlook 1997 with Projections to 2015, DOE Office
of the Integrated Analysis and Forecasting, Report No. DE-97005344, April 1997.)
expected to grow to replace the retiring nuclear power plants. However, the
renewables are expected to take a greater percentage of the growth. For
example, in February 1997, the Swedish government announced that it
