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The Electricity Has Rolled off the Production Line

25 мая 2009 г.

This year world demand for the electric power will decrease for the first time since 1945. The characteristic value will be reduced up to 3, 5 %. Last year it grew up 2, 5 %. Three quarters is consumed by the industry, therefore demand for electricity is rather informative indicator of the global economy condition. Financial crisis handled the industrial sector with a “black label”: many companies had to close factories, to reduce production because of the overloaded warehouses. According to the forecast, the current consumption of electricity in China might decrease more than 2 %, in the countries of OECD might become 5 % less, in Russia — almost 10 % less.

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