{"id":334048,"date":"2025-09-18T06:39:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T06:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/solar-nuclear-to-surge-in-middle-east-as-electricity-demand-soars-iea\/"},"modified":"2025-09-18T06:39:00","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T06:39:00","slug":"solar-nuclear-to-surge-in-middle-east-as-electricity-demand-soars-iea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/solar-nuclear-to-surge-in-middle-east-as-electricity-demand-soars-iea\/","title":{"rendered":"Solar + nuclear to surge in Middle East as electricity demand soars \u2013 IEA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/09\/solar-nuclear-to-surge-in-middle-east-as-electricity-demand-soars-iea.jpg\" \/>Electricity demand is skyrocketing across the Middle East and North Africa, and it\u2019s being driven by two big factors: cooling homes and businesses in extreme heat, and making seawater drinkable through desalination. A new report from the International Energy Agency (IEA) shows just how dramatic the surge is. Electricity use in the region has tripled since 2000, and it\u2019s expected to jump another 50% by 2035. That\u2019s like adding the current combined electricity demand of Germany and Spain. <a href=https:\/\/electrek.co\/2025\/09\/17\/solar-nuclear-middle-east-electricity-demand-iea\/ target=blank>Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/solar-nuclear-to-surge-in-middle-east-as-electricity-demand-soars-iea\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":334049,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-334048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-electrek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=334048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334048\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/334049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}