AN OVERVIEW OF WORLD FUTURE ENERGY DEMAND

The World Energy Council Commission's report Energy for Tomorrow's World was published in September 1993.(I) The Commission's three year study of world energy problems involved bath bottom-up studies, undertaken by groups of experts in nine main regions of the world, and cop-down studies of global aspects, The latter included the preparation of energy demand and supply projections up to the study horizon of 2020, together with a brief look at prospects up to 2100. This Paper is based on the Commission's work.