The World Nuclear Association warns that world-wide uranium demand might exceed supply next year.
Coal already supplies 50% of U.S. electricity--and watch for U.S. demand to exceed the government's modest 1.3% projected increase in 2006.
And this week the IMF's chief economist said that the contraction in global demand could exceed anything we've seen since the Great Depression itself.
In particular, upward pressure on inflation could materialize if final demand were to exceed the underlying productive capacity of the economy for a sustained period.
Electrical utilities need to ensure this daytime peak demand load does not exceed their supply capacity.
By as early as next year our demand for electricity will exceed reliable supply in New England, Texas and the West and, by 2011, in New York and the mid-Atlantic region.
By 2007, they say, demand for new digital machinery should exceed that for traditional units.
All told, electricity demand in these regions is likely to exceed supply by an estimated 19 million kilowatts (kW) in the summer, according to estimates by regional power distributor East China Grid Company.
Because of these security hurdles, employee demand to use more consumer technologies will probably exceed the willingness of CIOs to offer all of what they want.
As a result, utilities have to figure out how to balance the supply with the demand when the supply might fall short or exceed the need at any given time of the day.
Although we have delivered more than 500, 000 iPads during its first week, demand is far higher than we predicted and will likely continue to exceed our supply over the next several weeks as more people see and touch an iPad(TM).
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