Electricity consumption grows by seven percent. Consumption doubles in a ten year period

The Lebanese Center for Energy Conservation (LCEC) estimates demand for electricity to rise to 31,000 gigawatt hours in 2020.

Sorina Mortada, Technical Consultant to the LCEC, said: "We took 2010 as a baseline and found that energy consumption grows by seven percent on a yearly basis." Consumption was calculated over the period of 2005-2015, resulting in an average growth of seven percent per year.

Electricity consumption in 2010 was 16,000 GwH while production is estimated at 11,...

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