I was looking at some public data today and I’ll share my graphs of it with you. I found it interesting.
Remember the robust demand forecasts from the “Asian Tiger” heyday of the early 90s, then the 1997 “Asian currency crisis”, and then the eventual but slow demand recovery of 2001 or so?
Here’s a chart of the Philippine electric demand forecasts from various annual DOE Power Development Plans for four of the post-recovery years … and the actual demand.