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State of Energy Policy 2026 Government energy spending
…managing the contract-for-difference in the country, with USD 56 billion in 2025 alone.Since 2015, government spending in the buildings sector has grown sixfold to reach USD 56 billion in 2025, largely directed towards energy efficiency retrofits and space heating electrification. Key programmes include Italy’s Superbonus (USD 24 billion since 2021), the United States’ tax credits for residential energy efficiency property (USD 39 billion since 2015), Germany’s building efficiency and renewable energy programme (USD 56 billion since 2021) and China’s trade-in programme for appliances (USD 12.9 billion in 2025). Support for low-emissions passenger cars increased 15-fold within a decade, reaching USD...
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Global EV Outlook 2025 Trends in heavy-duty electric vehicles
…Finland, the Netherlands and Norway, now have electric bus sales shares of more than 40%. The United Kingdom continues to have the largest number of sales in Europe, accounting for around 20% of the region’s sales in 2024, with a year-on-year growth of over 40% and almost 2 000 electric buses sold in 2024. Italy follows, with almost 1 200 sales, and then Germany with almost 900. Sales were predominantly for city buses, for which ten European countries had battery electric sales shares above 80%, meaning almost half of all new city buses were battery electric in 2024, up from…
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Ramping up Heat Pumps in Moldova: A Roadmap Heat pumps in Moldova
…to provide warm water to radiators. These are most common in countries that historically have gas-based hydronic heating systems, such as Germany, the Netherlands, Poland, the United Kingdom as well as parts of France and Italy.Heat pumps also use the ground as a heat source. These devices are called geothermal or ground-source heat pumps and require the drilling of deep holes or digging of trenches in the ground where piping is inserted. Bodies of water, such as lakes and rivers, also can be used as a heat source for heat pumps, as is increasingly the case of…
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Renewables 2025 Biogases
…production of biogas, used primarily for electricity and CHP generation, is highly concentrated in Germany (53% of EU production). Biomethane production is on the rise in most European countries, with Germany (29% of EU production), France, Italy, Denmark and the Netherlands collectively accounting for 93% of EU production. The United Kingdom is also significant, with production equivalent to an additional 23% of the EU total.Several countries are working on their regulations to attract further investment. France’s new blending mandate for biomethane grid injection will be in force in 2026, while the Netherlands is developing one. Ireland has set…
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India-Italy Memorandum of Understanding on Cooperation on Critical Minerals
India and Italy signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on cooperation in the field of critical minerals. The MoU envisages cooperation to support sustainable and secure exploration, extraction, processing and recycling of critical minerals, with a focus on sustainability and supply chain resilience. Areas of cooperation set out in the MoU include: sharing and co-development of technologies for exploration, extraction, processing and recycling;promotion of advanced technologies, best practices, and capacity building;support for secure supplies of responsibly produced critical minerals;investment promotion;cooperation on offshore mineral exploration and extraction technologies; and collaboration on the valorisation of abandoned mining sites…
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France-Germany-Italy Joint Communique on Critical Raw Materials
As part of a series of trilateral meetings designed to enhance co-operation on strategic priorities, the economic ministers of France, Germany and Italy convened to collaborate on the sustainable supply of critical raw materials. The Ministers issued this Joint Communique with the aim for deepening co-ordination on extraction and processing, as well as advancing the circular economy through recycling. The meeting, which was also attended by industry representatives, provided a platform for strategising on how to best provide support to mineral companies. The three governments pledged to:Set extraction, processing and recycling targets for each strategic raw materialReinforce…
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France-Germany-Italy Joint Communique on Critical Raw Materials
As part of a series of trilateral meetings designed to enhance co-operation on strategic priorities, the economic ministers of France, Germany and Italy convened to collaborate on the sustainable supply of critical raw materials. The Ministers issued this Joint Communique with the aim for deepening co-ordination on extraction and processing, as well as advancing the circular economy through recycling. The meeting, which was also attended by industry representatives, provided a platform for strategising on how to best provide support to mineral companies. The three governments pledged to:Set extraction, processing and recycling targets for each strategic raw materialReinforce…
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France-Germany-Italy Joint Communique on Critical Raw Materials
As part of a series of trilateral meetings designed to enhance co-operation on strategic priorities, the economic ministers of France, Germany and Italy convened to collaborate on the sustainable supply of critical raw materials. The Ministers issued this Joint Communique with the aim for deepening co-ordination on extraction and processing, as well as advancing the circular economy through recycling. The meeting, which was also attended by industry representatives, provided a platform for strategising on how to best provide support to mineral companies. The three governments pledged to:Set extraction, processing and recycling targets for each strategic raw materialReinforce…
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North Macedonia
North Macedonia
- Overview
- Energy mix
- Emissions
- Electricity
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Slovenia
Slovenia has put in place a National Renewable Action Plan to 2020, which targets a 25% share of energy generation from renewable sources in gross final energy consumption and 39% of electricity demand met by electricity generated from renewable energy sources.
- Overview
- Energy mix
- Emissions
- Electricity
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