The following chart shows the world’s largest markets for electricity:

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The U.S. and China consume more than four times the power consumed by the next largest market of Japan. With has a population of about 1.1 billion India’s power generation capacity is much lower than that of China. Though Russia has a small population it produces more electricity than India.

Source: Fortum, Investor/Analyst Material, March 2012

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