Italian industry demand for
electricity has fallen dramatically since 2006, said the
president of Italian electricity association Assoelettrica in a
statement released Wednesday.
Industrial demand has gone from 156 billion kWh in 2006 to
roughly 120 billion kWh in 2013, a level "on par with those of
the early 1990s, that unambiguously signal the ongoing process
of deindustrialization of our country," said Chicco Testa in an
Assoelettrica annual report.
At the same time, residential and service demand for
electricity did not fall over the same period, which included
Italy's long economic recession since World War II. On the
contrary, they continued to grow.
Total electricity consumption in 2013 was 297 billion kWh,
in line with 2003 levels.
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