NONE 20251222134645572 wseas/wseas content-registration-form+ja@crossref.org content-registration-form WSEAS TRANSACTIONS ON BUSINESS AND ECONOMICS 1109-9526 2224-2899 Hafida Yakub Faculty of Economics and Business, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, MALAYSIA Mohd Khairul Hisyam Hassan Faculty of Economics and Business, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, MALAYSIA Jerome Kueh Swee Hui Faculty of Economics and Business, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, MALAYSIA This study aimed to examine the effects of economic growth, trade, and urbanization on electricity consumption in Malaysia from 1990 to 2022. The research employed the ARDL-ECM methodology and determined that all factors were significant. Unit root tests (ADF, PP, and KPSS) indicate mixed cointegration at both levels and initial differences for the variables in the equation. Then, it is appropriate to utilize the Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) method test. The study found that ARDL (3, 3, 3, 4) was the best ARDL model to use. 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