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Governments around the world commit to making energy efficiency a cornerstone of energy policy amid Strait of Hormuz crisis
…international progress on efficiency.“As successive energy crises have shown, energy efficiency remains one of the most powerful tools available to governments for strengthening energy security, lowering costs and boosting economic competitiveness. Best of all, it is a resource that every country possesses in abundance,” said IEA Executive Director Fatih Birol. “The commitments made in Montreal today demonstrate strong international resolve to put efficiency at the heart of energy policy and accelerate progress towards a more secure, resilient and sustainable global energy system. Just as the oil crises of the 1970s drove major improvements in the way energy is used…
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Tracking Energy Crisis Policy Responses
Background information The conflict in the Middle East has dealt a major shock to global energy markets. The near closure of the Strait of Hormuz has triggered the largest supply disruption in the history of oil markets, alongside significant impacts on supplies of natural gas and other energy-related commodities. As concerns over supply security have grown, prices have risen across several parts of the energy system, increasing pressure on household budgets, public finances, and economic activity more broadly.Many actions are being taken to bolster oil supply, including the largest-ever release of emergency oil stocks coordinated by the…
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Joint Statement in Support of the IEA-Ukraine Collaboration Programme
…energy savings and a transition to a more secure, sustainable, resilient and affordable energy system that is integrated with Europe. We commend the IEA’s intensification of activities under that Programme, as IEA Ministers requested at the 2024 Ministerial Meeting.We applaud and support the IEA’s contributions to further enhancing cooperation with Ukraine through the IEA-Ukraine Collaboration Programme, and request that the IEA Secretariat continue to work through the Programme to support Ukraine’s reconstruction needs. We express our appreciation to the IEA Secretariat for continuing to provide analysis of Ukraine’s current energy situation to inform international…
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The Value of Demand Flexibility: Benefits beyond balancing
…regulatory and planning frameworks. The webinar will combine policy perspectives, analytical insights and practitioner experience, highlighting how demand flexibility can be embedded alongside energy efficiency as part of an efficiency-first approach to power system planning and operation. Agenda Opening remarks (Italian Ministry of Environment and Energy Security)Key takeaways - The value of demand flexibility: benefits beyond balancing (IEA)Roundtable discussion (moderated by IEA)Insights from international experience from leading experts from the Centre for Net Zero, Enel, and Schneider Electric Sustainability Research Institute on:Unlocking demand flexibility in practiceEfficiency, affordability and system resiliencePolicy, regulatory and market perspectivesClosing reflections (IEA & UNEP)
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IEA Members reaffirm support for IEA-Ukraine Collaboration Programme
…s energy situation, which has helped inform domestic efforts in Ukraine as well as responses from its partners. As part of the IEA Secretariat’s work through the Programme, the IEA released a 10-point plan for Ukraine to safeguard its energy system during the 2024-25 winter, as well as a 2025-26 update and a roadmap for decentralising Ukraine's power system. Earlier this month, the IEA published a report highlighting key lessons from Ukraine that can inform energy resilience planning worldwide.Looking ahead, the donors encouraged the IEA to further intensify work on enabling investment in Ukraine’s energy…
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Global Energy Review 2025 Global trends
Energy demand accelerates, with electricity leading the way Different elements of the world’s energy system saw very different rates of growth in 2024, reflecting both the impact of short-term factors and deeper structural trends. Global energy demand grew by 2.2% in 2024, a notably faster rate than the annual average of 1.3% seen between 2013 and 2023. This uptick was partly due to the effect of extreme weather, which we estimate added 0.3 percentage points to the 2.2% growth. Despite this, energy demand grew more slowly than the global economy, which expanded by 3…
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Lithuania 2025 Executive summary
…to end its reliance on energy imports from the Russian Federation (hereafter, “Russia”). Thanks to strategic infrastructure investments, Lithuania is an important regional energy hub, and with the recently completed electricity grid synchronisation with the Continental European Synchronous Area (CESA), the Baltic states have successfully disconnected from the Russian-controlled system. While these are important achievements, Lithuania’s final energy consumption remains highly reliant on imported fossil fuels, notably in transport, and a significant share of electricity demand is met by imports. This report seeks to provide Lithuania with timely advice on how it can progress towards its energy goals…
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World Energy Outlook 2022 Key findings
…as now, the crises brought to the surface some underlying fragilities and dependencies in the energy system. Then, as now, high prices created strong economic incentives to act, and those incentives were reinforced by considerations of economic and energy security.But today’s global energy crisis is significantly broader and more complex than those that came before. The shocks in the 1970s were about oil, and the task facing policy makers was relatively clear (if not necessarily simple to implement): reduce dependence on oil, especially oil imports. By contrast, the energy crisis today has multiple dimensions: natural gas, but also…
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Renewables in District Energy Executive summary
…a small number of countries with strong policy support, favourable resources and coordinated planning. This contrasts sharply with the rapid scale-up of other clean energy technologies. Over the past five years, global solar PV capacity has more than quadrupled, wind capacity has nearly doubled, and electric car sales have surged – all while renewables use in district heating has remained stable. Without policy changes, renewable district heat is projected to grow by only around 10% to 2030. This highlights a major untapped opportunity to expand renewables in both existing and new district energy systems, supporting diversification and decarbonisation of heat supply....
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Russia's War on Ukraine
…the war continues to reshape the global energy system in profound ways. Trade patterns for oil and natural gas have shifted dramatically since Russia’s invasion as governments look to strengthen their energy security. At the same time, cleaner alternatives to fossil fuels are growing faster than ever. Due in part to policies unveiled by governments after February 2022, the world’s capacity to produce renewable power is expanding at a remarkable place , while the popularity of clean technologies such as electric vehicles and heat pumps is surging. The biggest legacy of the global energy crisis triggered by Russia's invasion…