Australia’s energy demand will soar over the coming decades due to a combination of rapid population growth, the mass build-out of data centres, and the likely need for a fleet of energy-hungry water desalination plants.
The latest projections from the Centre for Population, released this month, show that the nation’s population will balloon by 13.4 million (nearly 50%) by 2065–66, equivalent to adding another Sydney, Melbourne, and Perth to the current population.
As a result, household demand for energy (let alone extra industrial and commercial demand) will also increase by around 50%.
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