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Table 13. Continued Consumption of Goods and Up 100 Percent Present Best Technology Services Advanced Technology Fuel Electricity Total (Petajoules Fuel per year b ) Electricity Total Residential 0 Commercial 11 Transportation Domestic International Bunkers Industry Manufacturing Agriculture, Forestry, and Construction 78 11 210 40 353 54 73 41 13 _ 191 29 151 54 223 40 544 83 50 5 160 29 275 49 58 38 9 - 175 19 108 43 169 29 450 68 Total 751 347 1098 569 299 868 our scenario is how far the centrally planned industrialized countries of Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union will pursue energy efficiency. To date at least, they have adopted few energyefficiency improvements. However, pressures to use energy efficiently are mounting. Oil production in the Soviet Union has peaked and will probably decline slowly in the future. The easy-to-exploit coal resources in the western part of the Soviet Union are being exhausted, so that coal production is shifting to remote Siberian sources. And even before the Chernobyl accident, nuclear power was proving to be more costly than expected and its expansion was well behind schedule. Moreover, because average per capita energy use in these countries is about the same as in market-oriented industrialized countries, and the level of amenities made possible by energy are probably higher in the West than in the East, it may be true that what can be achieved in a few countries such as Sweden and the United States is feasible in any industrialized country. Energy Use in Developing Countries—A Thought Experiment The energy demand situation is completely different for the three quarters of the world's population who live in developing countries and account for one third of world energy use. At present, per capita final energy use in developing countries averages about 0.9 kW, of which about 0.4 kW is non-commercial energy, most of it used by the two thirds of the population who live in rural areas. Current patterns of energy end use in various developing countries are not nearly as well-understood as those in industrialized countries. The available data are not nearly as 74
Table 14. Final Per Capita Energy Use Scenarios for Sweden a With Consumption of Goods and Services Up 50 percent With Consumption of Goods and Services Up 100 percent 1975 vanced [inology Capita) Present Best Technology Advanced Technology Residential 13 Commercial 0 Transportation Domestic International Bunkers 1.36 0.53 0.89 0.18 0.48 0.19 0.74 0.12 0.34 0.15 0.55 0.10 0.58 0.21 0.85 0.15 0.41 0.16 0.65 0.11 Industry Manufacturing Agriculture, Forestry, and Construction 2.09 0.30 1.70 0.23 1.42 0.19 2.08 0.31 1.72 0.26 Total 5.34 3.48 2.75 4.19 3.31 a. The population is assumed to be 8.3 million in all cases. The per capita gross domestic product in 1975 was $8,320. b. Heated residential floor space is assumed to increase from 36 square meters per capita in 1975 to 55 (73) square meters per capita with a 50 percent (100 percent) increase in per capita consumption of goods and services. c. Commercial buildings' floor space is assumed to increase from 12.7 to 16.4 (20.2) square meters per capita for a 50 percent (100 percent) increase in per capita consumption of goods and services. comprehensive, and it is inherently more difficult to project long-range energy demand for rapidly industrializing countries than for mature industrialized countries where most energy-intensive activities are growing only slowly or not at all. In the face of such problems, a different approach for estimating long-term energy requirements in developing countries makes sense. Imagine for argument's sake a developing country having a standard of living roughly equal to that in Western Europe, Japan, Australia, and New Zealand in the late 1970s. 49 (See Table 20.) In other words, the average family lives in a reasonably well-constructed house with running water, plumbing for sewage, an easy-to-use cooking fuel (such as gas), electric lights, and all basic appliances— refrigerator-freezer, a water heater, a clothes washer, and a television set. There is one automobile for every 1.2 households on aver- 75
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