Modified Energy Demand for Low-Carbon Economic Development

The current world energy crisis has already occurred and energy consumption is largely controlled only by the world''s major industrialized countries (Zhao 2008). According to the projection of the International Energy Agency (IEA) up to 2030 world energy demand increased by 45% or an average increase of 1.6% per year. The implication is that security of energy supply will decline and potentially trigger a recession of the world''s economic recession (Connolly et al. 2009) and threats to the environment (Zhao et al. 2011) This fact has been responded by some countries to redesign policies energy planning as was done in China (Zhao et al. 2011) Thailand (Wangjiraniran et al. 2011) Turkey (Karabulut et al. 2008) Iran (Ghader et al. 2006) and further conducted in Sweden (Nilson and Martensson 2002) developed countries such as Canada (Tubss 2008) and California (Ghanadan and Koomey 2005) have even anticipated the energy crisis by preparing early energy planning.