Finally, the pace of electrification is estimated to increase substantially until 2010, with 510 thousand new installations planned for 2009 and 578 thousand more for 2010, which is far above what had been realised the years before. These planned connections correspond mainly to the newly identified rural electrification demand - the original LpT target of two million installations had nearly been met in 2008 with 1.88 million connections. With the implementation of LpT, however, this target was brought forward by seven years (2008 instead of the original end date of 2015).