Dhaka, Nov. 14 -- The head of the International Energy Agency (IEA) has said the world has moved beyond the age of coal, oil and gas, and entered "the age of electricity".

Fatih Birol, the agency's executive director, told The Guardian that global electricity generation was expected to grow more than twice as much over the next decade as it did in the previous 10 years, driven by rising demand for electric transport, artificial intelligence datacentres, and air conditioning.

In an interview with The Guardian at the COP31 UN climate summit in Turkey, Birol said the world had added about 5,000GW of electricity generation capacity over the past decade and was expected to add around 12,000GW in the next 10 years.

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