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Global EV Outlook 2026 Electric vehicle charging
…chargers (such as those in an apartment complex parking lots).In recognition of the importance of access to home charging, policy measures in place in many countries around the world include specific building regulations or codes. For example, in 2024 the European Union revised the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive to require new or renovated buildings to include pre-cabling for EV charging. This makes it easier for residents to install home chargers, while avoiding the future need for costly retrofits. Kenya’s 2024 National Building Code mandates 5% of parking spaces in all new buildings be equipped for EV charging…
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Global Energy and Climate Model Macro drivers
Overview The Global Energy and Climate Model (GEC Model) uses macro drivers, techno-economic inputs and policies as input data to design and calculate the scenarios. The values for the different data categories and scenarios used in the GEC Model 2025 can be downloaded here.Economic activity and population are the two fundamental drivers of demand for energy services in GEC Model scenarios. Unless otherwise specified, these are kept constant across all scenarios as a means of providing a starting point for the analysis and facilitating the interpretation of the results. The projections are based on the average retail prices…
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Global Methane Tracker 2026 Addressing methane in the marketplace
…Japan, Korea and China – such emissions (15 million tonnes in 2024) far exceed those from domestic oil and gas operations and infrastructure (5 million tonnes in 2024). Upstream methane emissions intensities associated with oil and gas imports differ across countries. According to International Energy Agency (IEA) estimates, average intensities are around 1% for the European Union and United Kingdom, 0.6% for Japan and Korea, and 1.3% for China. By reducing these intensities to 0.2% – a level that could be achieved worldwide using all currently available technologies – global methane emissions would fall by more than 12 million tonnes…
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Electricity 2026 Reliability
Largescale outages amid system instability, equipment failures and weather impacts As the Age of Electricity evolves, with steadily rising electrification rates and electricity demand, blackouts can impact a vast part of economies and social life. Outages induced by operational failures, technical error, or climate-driven events illustrate the importance of redundancy, resilience, and thorough oversight. The following list of outage incidents in 2025 underscores how ensuring the security, reliability and resilience of power systems is evolving from a technical challenge to a strategic necessity that requires unwavering attention from system operators, regulators, and policy leaders. Voltage management increasingly important for…
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Energy and AI Understanding the energy-AI nexus
…AI related benchmarks have limitations that necessitate a cautious approach to assessing their implications, they offer a window into the evolving capabilities of AI models that can complement data on real-world deployment. In the energy sector, AI has numerous applications that can improve efficiency, reduce costs and drive innovation. Examples include faster, cheaper and more accurate weather forecasting for predicting the output of wind and solar PV plants, real-time monitoring and optimisation of transmission lines, and the use of AI to discover new battery chemistries.At the same time, AI is also energy intensive. Globally, data centres consumed...
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Financing the Modernisation of Power Systems Beyond Coal Executive summary
…industrialisation and electrification. Although the share of coal in electricity generation in the region is expected to decline over the coming decade as renewables expand rapidly, coal-fired power generation is anticipated to remain important for system adequacy, reliability and energy security. Recent disruptions in gas markets have reinforced this role, with governments in Southeast Asia increasing coal-fired power generation to maintain electricity supply and manage fuel supply risks.If operated for typical lifetimes and utilisation rates, the existing worldwide coal fleet would emit 330 gigatonnes (Gt) of carbon dioxide (CO2) to 2100 – more than the historical emissions to date…
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World Energy Outlook 2022 Key findings
…winter.High energy prices are causing a huge transfer of wealth from consumers to producers, back to the levels seen in 2014 for oil, but entirely unprecedented for natural gas. High fuel prices account for 90% of the rise in the average costs of electricity generation worldwide, natural gas alone for more than 50%. The costs of renewables and carbon dioxide have played only a marginal role, underscoring that this is a crisis where energy transitions are the solution, rather than the problem.Price and economic pressures mean that the number of people without access to modern energy is rising…
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Global Methane Tracker 2026 Policy trends
Existing policies and regulations would cut energy sector emissions by 25% by 2035 – far short of high-level goals National ambitions to lower emissions have grown significantly in recent years, with many new countries signing onto methane commitments. High-level methane pledges now cover around 80% of global fossil fuel production, up from around 50% in 2021. This includes the Global Methane Pledge (GMP), which today includes more than 150 countries and covers more than 50% of emissions from human activity worldwide. Launched in 2021 at the 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26), the GMP commits participating countries to…
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Breakthrough Agenda Report 2025 Fertilisers
…GHG emissions occur during fertiliser use; the rest occur during production. In total, fertilisers emit around 1.23 Gt CO2 equivalent per year globally.The emissions intensity of ammonia has fallen by 1.1% annually over the last 10 years, driven primarily by improvements in energy efficiency. Cost Excluding policies such as CO2 pricing, ammonia production today is estimated to cost on average 30% more using carbon capture and storage (CCS) and three times more using electrolysis when compared to conventional routes. Scale and narrowing price differentials with fossil fuels can help to reduce this gap.Globally, low-emissions ammonia production projects…
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China’s Official Energy Finance in Emerging and Developing Economies Dashboard
…Chinese official-sector financing for energy across EMDE, enabling users to explore project-level data by year, recipient country or region, technology, instrument, provider type and currency (when applicable). Developed to bring greater understanding of China’s diverse financing channels, the dashboard allows users to filter and compare flows in either USD (2024, MER) or by project count. It is designed to complement the analysis in this report and to support deeper understanding of how different institutions and instruments shape China’s role in EMDE energy finance.Use the filters to explore how Chinese energy finance is distributed around the…
