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Policy
Malta
2026
Nine-year national plan to strengthen the national grid and energy security
Malta has launched a nine-year national plan to modernize its electricity distribution system through major infrastructure and grid investments. This initiative includes 12 new distribution centers and a 132kV link to Gozo to enhance national energy security.
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Policy
Korea
2023
Korea-Canada MOU on Cooperation in Critical Mineral Supply Chains, the Clean Energy Transition and Energy Security
The 2023 Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between Canada and the Republic of Korea focuses on critical minerals and energy transition cooperation, reflecting a commitment to collaborative efforts in critical minerals and energy transition. Cooperation covers trade and investment in critical mineral supply chains, energy transition, information exchange on mineral processing and recycling, clean fuels like hydrogen, carbon capture and storage technologies, and manufacturing in areas such as clean energy, zero-emission vehicles, and semiconductors. Forms of cooperation include facilitating technology and investment activities, conducting joint workshops, organising missions, developing communication networks, encouraging collaboration with sub-national governments, and investment screening…
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Policy
Canada
2023
Korea-Canada MOU on Cooperation in Critical Mineral Supply Chains, the Clean Energy Transition and Energy Security
The 2023 Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between Canada and the Republic of Korea focuses on critical minerals and energy transition cooperation, reflecting a commitment to collaborative efforts in critical minerals and energy transition. Cooperation covers trade and investment in critical mineral supply chains, energy transition, information exchange on mineral processing and recycling, clean fuels like hydrogen, carbon capture and storage technologies, and manufacturing in areas such as clean energy, zero-emission vehicles, and semiconductors. Forms of cooperation include facilitating technology and investment activities, conducting joint workshops, organising missions, developing communication networks, encouraging collaboration with sub-national governments, and investment screening…
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Policy
Brazil
2025
Law 15,269/2025 modernising the regulatory framework of the electricity sector to promote affordable tariffs and energy security
This Law establishes measures for the modernisation of the regulatory framework of the Brazilian electricity sector, promoting affordable tariffs and energy security, providing guidelines for the regulation of electricity storage activities, and foreseeing measures to facilitate the commercialisation of natural gas.
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Policy
South Africa
2022
Energy Action Plan
The Energy Action Plan seeks to end load shedding and guarantee energy security. The plan includes five pillars, including the improvement of the availability of existing supply by restructuring Eskom, enabling private investment in generation capacity, accelerate procurement of new generation capacity from renewables, gas and battery storage, unleash businesses and households to invest in rooftop solar, and achieve long-term energy security in the country.
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Policy
Latvia
1998
Energy law - strategic reserves
The Energy Act was amended several times since 1998 to adjust the energy security needs of Latvia. The Energy Law was notably amended in 2010 to implement the European Union’s Directive 2009/119/EC and lays out a specific legal framework concerning the protection of Latvia’s energy supply by stockholding oil and other petroleum products. Since 2024, the limited liability company “Public Asset Manager Possessor” is managing safety stocks, and will purchase oil as state property until 2029. Aside from creating a strategic natural gas reserves, there is also safety reserves of energy supply to ensure continuous supply…
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Policy
United Republic of Tanzania
2024
National Energy Efficiency Strategy 2024 -2034
The National Energy Efficiency Strategy 2024-2034 pursues improving energy security, reducing poverty, promoting innovation, and mitigating climate change, with a broad scope covering thematic sectors such as electricity supply, cooking, manufacturing, mining, and quarrying, transportation, and building.
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Policy
Bangladesh
2004
National Energy Policy
This policy underscores the importance of maintaining emergency petroleum stocks to ensure energy security during supply disruptions. The strategic stock of petroleum products is to be maintained at 60 days of consumption.
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Policy
Panama
2021
Technical transformation to promote the energy transition in Panama
The government of Panama is prioritising energy security and the diversification of the energy mix in its transition to a low-carbon economy, with a focus on promoting renewables, efficiency and electro mobility. By 2024, Panama’s Energy Transition Agenda (ATE) plans to reach 4.3% of distributed generation (DG) installed capacity, up from 1% today, and to reach 1 700 MW installed DG capacity in 2030. It also plans to increase electro mobility penetration to 10% in 2024. Achieving these goals is predicated on creating 15 687 net additional clean energy jobs by 2024, which would lead to a…
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Policy
India
2014
Karnataka Renewable Energy Policy 2014-2021 (Draft)
The Karnataka Renewable Energy Policy recognizes the need for long term energy security and how volatile fossil fuel costs, global warming and climate change is promoting renewable power generation in the State. The policy follows the Karnataka Renewable Energy Policy 2009-14 and sets more ambitious targets for renewables.
The proposed year-wise targets are below:
Capacity targets (MW)
RE Source
2014-15
2015-16
2016-17
2017-18
2018-19
2019-20
Total
Wind Power
350
400
425
450
475
500
2600
Mini, Micro & Small Hydro
50
100
100
100
125
125
600
Biomass, Cogeneration and MSW
35…