Annual Energy Outlook 2003 with Projections to 2025

Table 18. Forecasts of average annual growth in commercial energy demand (percent)

Energy use

History
1980-
2001

Projections

AEO2003

GII
2001-2020

2001-2020

2001-2025

Petroleum

-2.8

-0.2

-0.1

-0.4

Natural gas

 1.1

 1.3

 1.3

 1.1

Electricity

 3.7

 2.2

 2.2

 2.0

Delivered energy

 1.6

 1.7

 1.6

 1.4

Electricity losses

 3.3

 1.5

 1.5

 0.6

History: Energy Information Administration, Annual Energy Review 2001, DOE/ EIA-0384(2001) (Washington, DC, November 2002). AEO2003: Table A2. GII (formerly DRI-WEFA): Global Insight, Winter 2001-2002 U.S. Energy Outlook (May 2002).

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