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Global Hydrogen Review 2026 Production
…production reached almost 1 Mt in 2025 and is expected to register record growth in 2026, accounting for more than 1% of global production, strongly concentrated in China, Europe and North America.Installed electrolysis capacity doubled in 2025 to surpass 4 GW, thanks to the commissioning of several large-scale projects in China. More than 2.5 GW are under construction, targeting operation in 2026. Growth is expected mostly in Europe, with 2 GW, but is highly concentrated in a small number of big projects.One large project for production from fossil fuels with carbon capture, utilisation and storage (CCUS) started operation in 2025…
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Lithuania
…Latvia, Lithuania disconnected from the Russian electricity system and completed the synchronisation of its grid with the Continental European Synchronous Area (CESA) in February 2025. By 2030, Lithuania aims to shift from being an electricity importer to becoming a net exporter. Although the country’s energy consumption still depends heavily on imported fossil fuels, the share of bioenergy in the domestic energy supply is growing, and Lithuania aspires to become an energy exporter by 2050. Lithuania joined the IEA as its 31st member on 20 February 2022, and its most recent Energy Policy Review was published on 7 July 2025.
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- Energy mix
- Emissions
- Electricity
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Global Methane Tracker 2026 Policy trends
…regulations, resources and implementation plans. Countries seeking to develop such frameworks can draw on existing support, including the International Energy Agency (IEA)’s regulatory roadmaps for cutting methane emissions in the oil and gas and coal sectors. Recent changes in methane policies and regulations Several countries introduced or strengthened mandatory policies and regulations targeting methane emissions in 2025:Canada amended federal regulations on emissions from upstream oil and gas facilities. The revised rules tighten standards for leak detection and repair (LDAR), strengthen the management of fugitive emissions, and prohibit venting except in narrowly defined circumstances. The changes also introduce an…
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Critical Mineral Traceability for Energy and Economic Security
…how they are transformed is increasingly important for policymakers seeking to create diversified and responsible supply chains.This report provides insights from a first-of-its kind survey on traceability conducted by the IEA and OECD. More than 80 respondent companies active across supply chains of the six focus minerals (copper, lithium, nickel, cobalt, graphite and rare earth elements) provided results between October and December 2025. Drawing on these, the report assesses the current state of company traceability practices, examines how governments are deploying traceability as a policy instrument, and identifies key barriers to wider adoption, including high implementation costs…
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Breakthrough Agenda Report 2025 Hydrogen
State of the transition Emissions Hydrogen production today is associated with emissions of almost 1 300 Mt CO2 equivalent (CO2-eq) and there has been no progress in reducing them – in contrast, emissions have edged up in recent years.However, the increase in global production (which neared 100 Mt in 2024) has kept the global average emissions intensity of hydrogen production almost constant over the past 5 years. Costs Renewable and low-carbon hydrogen remains more expensive than hydrogen from unabated fossil fuels.The cost gap has increased recently due to slower-than-expected deployment, inflation and the fall in fossil fuel prices.Electrolyser…
- Executive summary
- Power
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- Road transport
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Renewables 2025 Executive summary
…China, the European Union and Japan’s power generation capacity combined to the global energy mix. Solar PV accounts for almost 80% of the global increase, followed by wind, hydropower, bioenergy and geothermal. In more than 80% of countries worldwide, renewable power capacity is set to grow faster between 2025 and 2030 than it did over the previous five-year period. However, challenges including grid integration, supply chain vulnerabilities and financing are also increasing. The increase in solar PV capacity is set to more than double over the next five years, dominating the global growth of renewables. Low costs, faster…
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Investment
…mobilising capital. This initiative includes a dashboard that offers free data on financing costs for clean energy projects, tools and analysis to help governments identify and address investment risks, and case studies showcasing successful strategies for mobilising capital. Globally, energy investment by governments, households and businesses is expected to reach a new high of $3.3 trillion in 2025. How this spending is allocated has major consequences for energy security, affordability and transitions around the world.The IEA regularly tracks capital flows in the energy sector, identifying key trends and studying their impact. Analyses such as our flagship World Energy Investment report…
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Integrating Solar and Wind in Southeast Asia Executive summary
…emissions targets, with many countries already implementing policy measures to scale up renewables, including competitive auctions, direct power purchase agreements and feed-in tariffs. The 2025 renewal of the 5-year ASEAN Plan of Action for Energy Cooperation (APAEC) is expected to reinforce the regional commitment to progress deployment of renewables until 2030. Near-term VRE integration challenges in Southeast Asia are manageable with proven, low-cost measures Growing solar PV generation will create new flexibility demands, but most ASEAN member states can integrate higher VRE shares through 2030 by applying proven measures and without major system overhauls. Today, all…
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Electricity 2026 Flexibility
…well as spatially and temporally concentrated demand from EVs, heat pumps and large loads like data centres. Combined with the expansion and upgrade of transmission and distribution grids, substantial increases in the flexibility of power systems are required for secure and cost-effective integration of generation, load and storage technologies that characterise this new era.Last year’s report, Electricity 2025, focused on measures to enhance flexibility on the supply side of electricity markets by reducing the various technical, regulatory or contractual inflexibilities affecting generation. This year, we focus on demand-side applications for providing and improving flexibility. In addition…
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- Demand
- Supply
- Grids
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Electricity 2026 Grids
…enabling more capacity to be integrated more quickly through regulatory reforms and deployment of technologies that can deliver rapid grid upgrades. Greater demand-side participation and the expansion of utility-scale battery storage are additional levers for enhancing system flexibility and managing congestion, which are addressed in detail in the subsequent chapter on Flexibility.This chapter on grids also includes a dedicated section on the synchronisation of the Baltic power system in February 2025, a landmark technical and political achievement. Grid technologies and regulatory reforms unlock grid capacity Accelerating the build out of grids is a key imperative as the…
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- Supply
- Grids
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