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High-level panel: AI for efficiency
A panel discussion that examines the range of promising new AI tools that are being harnessed worldwide as a positive tool for unlocking new routes to energy efficiency.
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Energy Technology Perspectives 2026 webinar
…The 2026 edition aims to provide a comprehensive update on key energy technology issues.Against the backdrop of a fast-changing policy and technology landscape, ETP-2026 delivers timely insights into the status and outlook of deployment, manufacturing, project pipelines, investment and trade for a range of energy technologies and materials.ETP-2026 examines demand-side dynamics for energy technologies — such as deployment trends and policy developments — as well as supply-side factors, including manufacturing capacity and trade flows, underpinned by robust modelling and quantitative analysis. This year’s edition puts a special focus on vulnerabilities in energy technology supply…
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Industry
Industry
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Energy innovation enters security-focused phase as batteries dominate patent landscape
…one in ten patents worldwide relates to energy – more than for chemicals, pharmaceuticals or transport – underlining the sector’s central role in national security, industrial strategy and economic performance.The 2026 edition identifies over 150 major innovation highlights during the year, spanning solid-state air conditioning, perovskite solar cells, fusion energy, sodium-ion batteries and next-generation geothermal systems. These advances contributed to 50 upgrades in technology readiness levels among emerging energy technologies tracked by the IEA.At the same time, the policy context is shifting. In a survey of experts and practitioners, energy security emerged as the leading driver…
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Outcome Statement of the IEA’s 11th Annual Conference on Energy Efficiency
The Montreal Action Plan In the context of the current global energy crisis, we meet today in Montreal at the International Energy Agency’s 11th Annual Global Conference on Energy Efficiency, co-hosted by the IEA and the Government of Canada, to reaffirm the importance of energy efficiency and to discuss how we can scale up energy efficiency efforts. In doing so we aim to build longer-term economic competitiveness and resilience at the national and global level, improve people’s lives by reducing energy bills, increasing energy security, and advancing clean energy transitions. This action plan builds on the…
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Advancing Energy Access and Clean Cooking Solutions
This High-level dialogue on Advancing energy access and clean cooking solutions will showcase progress since the 2024 Summit on Clean Cooking in Africa, highlight approaches that have accelerated clean cooking solutions and provide a platform for participants to present new initiatives to advance energy access. The session also aims at identifying priority areas for the upcoming 2026 Summit on Clean Cooking in Africa, including key policies targets, strategies to mobilize more public and private investment, and approaches to engage industry and civil society. Leads
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The State of Energy Innovation 2025
…milestones. It identifies areas where new approaches to policy support are being developed to use public funds more effectively, but also highlights areas where more efforts are needed to address barriers to scale-up and attract private capital. The report includes focus chapters on three dynamic fields, namely diversification of battery mineral supplies, application of artificial intelligence to energy innovation, and development of carbon dioxide removal technologies. The analysis provides a data-driven foundation to inform policy makers, industry and other stakeholders on the state of energy innovation worldwide and the importance of sustaining innovation momentum over the long term.
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New podcast episode examines the surge in energy jobs
…increase in global energy employment, and how to tackle growing skills shortages, which could complicate efforts by countries to meet rising energy demand securely and affordably.The Everything Energy podcast offers fresh perspectives on a wide range of global energy issues through conversations with IEA experts.Previous episodes cover the vast potential of geothermal energy, nuclear energy’s comeback, energy and AI, key energy investment trends, the forces shaping oil markets, growing demand for air conditioning, efforts to expand clean cooking access, where the world’s electricity comes from, petrochemicals, Southeast Asia’s growing energy importance, Ukraine’s energy security this coming…
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New podcast episode explores future of energy security with Singapore and Morocco’s energy ministers
…cover the vast potential of geothermal energy, nuclear energy’s comeback, energy and AI, key energy investment trends, the forces shaping oil markets, growing demand for air conditioning, efforts to expand clean cooking access, where the world’s electricity comes from, petrochemicals, Southeast Asia’s growing energy importance, Ukraine’s energy security this coming winter, major findings in the latest World Energy Outlook, the future of solar power, how to bring power to 600 million people, the shifting geography of energy demand, what’s next for the global car industry, the state of play for hydrogen and what’s driving the surge in energy jobs.
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New podcast episode explores how energy crisis is shaping investment trends
…increasingly looking to meet demand with domestic energy sources – they discuss the implications across different sectors, including oil, gas, coal, nuclear, renewables and electricity. They also speak about how investment in energy efficiency is evolving and how the crisis could affect the cost of capital for energy projects.The Everything Energy podcast offers insights and perspectives from the IEA on leading global energy issues. In recent episodes, IEA experts have unpacked the evolving relationship between energy and AI and the state of hydropower, as well as a number of topics linked to the ongoing energy crisis stemming from the war in…