Italian industry demand for electricity plunges 23% in 7 yrs

(ANSA) - Rome, May 14 - 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.