Global electricity capacity should double by 2030 - EDF

Friday, March 19, 2010

The world currently had installed electricity capacity of about 4 000 GW and given the expected strong growth in demand for electricity, this should be doubled by 2030, power utility lectricit de France (EDF) senior executive vice-president for international operations Gerard Wolf told a conference on Tuesday.

He noted during the first day of the Power and Electricity World Africa conference, in Johannesburg, that despite many countries investing in additional capacity, this still left about 1,6-billion people without electricity.

This was no longer the time for only doing energy studies but rather the time for implementation, as more capacity was needed across the world, he said.

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