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Renewables 2025 Executive summary
…adoption of solar PV. Wind power faces supply chain issues, rising costs and permitting delays – but global capacity is still expected to nearly double to over 2 000 GW by 2030 as major economies like China and the European Union address these challenges. Hydropower is set to account for 3% of new renewable power additions to 2030. The faster growth of pumped storage plants between 2025-30 leads to a much greater increase in hydropower compared with the previous five years. In 2030, annual geothermal capacity additions are expected to reach a historic high, triple the 2024 increase, driven by growth…
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Global Hydrogen Review 2026 Africa
Hydrogen use in Africa reached 3.1 Mt in 2024, about 3% of the global total. Hydrogen production accounted for about 6% of the region’s gas demand and 2% of regional CO2 emissions. Hydrogen use is concentrated in 6 countries (out of 54), with Egypt representing nearly half, followed by Algeria (20%), Nigeria (17%), South Africa (5%), Libya (5%) and Equatorial Guinea (3%). Ammonia production accounted for nearly three-quarters of hydrogen demand.Today, only 6 kt of low-emissions hydrogen are produced in Africa, exclusively from renewables. The hydrogen project pipeline to 2030 has 31 projects, which could allow increasing…
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China’s Official Energy Finance in Emerging and Developing Economies Dashboard
…technology the provided financing supports. When a specific project spans multiple technologies, they are split proportionally.Fossil fuel supply: Activities related to the extraction, processing and transport of fossil fuels, including coal mining, oil and gas production, liquefaction, refining, pipelines and associated infrastructure. This category covers upstream and midstream supply rather than electricity generation.Fossil fuel generation: Electricity and heat generation using fossil fuels, including coal-, oil- and natural gas–fired power plants. It excludes fossil fuel supply activities and focuses only on power and heat production. Fossil fuel generation projects in this dashboard do not explicitly include carbon capture…
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Energy Efficiency 2025 Executive summary
…progress has slowed sharply. Industrial energy demand growth has accelerated since 2019, while the average annual rate of industrial energy intensity improvement fell to under 0.5% over that same period, compared to almost 2% last decade. This global shift towards more intensive energy use in industry is offsetting gains made in other sectors and is weighing down overall efficiency progress.Policies have lagged technology progress, leaving significant savings on the table. Many appliances being sold today are often only half as efficient as the best available models. As technologies have become more efficient in recent years, energy efficiency standards…
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World Energy Outlook 2025 Achieving access for all
A roadmap for universal energy access Today around 2 billion people lack access to clean cooking and some 730 million remain without electricity – deficits which have far-reaching implications for health, economic opportunity and global development. Since 2010, 1.5 billion people have gained access to clean cooking and 1 billion to electricity, demonstrating that rapid progress is possible. Our new Accelerating Clean Cooking and Electricity Services Scenario (ACCESS) outlines a country-by-country pathway to universal access that draws on lessons about what has worked best in recent years. Universal clean cooking access is achieved in the ACCESS around 2040. Over 60…
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Indicators Handbook for Just and Inclusive Energy Transitions Key findings from workshops on challenges and opportunities for tracking progress on just and inclusive energy transitions
…in their energy programmes, maximising equity and beneficial outcomes for all parties. Additionally, disaggregated indicators can help reveal distributional effects, highlighting population segments that may benefit from energy transitions as well as those that may bear unintended burdens.Integrating qualitative indicators with quantitative metrics is key to fully capture lived experiences and understand real impacts in communities.Key dimensions of just transitions, such as active stakeholder engagement, or women’s sense of empowerment and increased agency, cannot be captured by numbers alone. They often require qualitative data collection approaches, such as perception surveys, interviews or participatory methods. These methods can…
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Electricity 2026 Supply
Renewables and nuclear keep growing and setting records Global electricity generation will reach multiple new milestones in our 2026-2030 forecast period. This is particularly the case for low-emissions generation sources – renewables and nuclear – which will continue expanding and setting new records. Renewable energy is now outpacing coal, with nuclear generation simultaneously reaching historic highs. Constrained by growth in low-emissions sources, coal-fired generation globally is forecast to record slight declines, where demand growth through 2030 will be met by renewables, natural gas and nuclear. While trends for individual fuels vary by region, a common theme is the…
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Global Methane Tracker 2025 Regional insights
…all major producers in the region have signed the Global Methane Pledge. Yet Colombia is the only country with an explicit strategy for reducing methane emissions and regulations in place to limit methane emissions from oil and gas operations (including restrictions on flaring and venting, requiring biannual LDAR and setting technology standards). Argentina, Brazil and Ecuador have policies to restrict flaring, although these have had mixed success. From 2013 to 2023, flared volumes fell by 10% in Brazil, but they increased by around 60% in Argentina and nearly doubled in Ecuador. Stopping all non-emergency flaring and venting is the…
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Serbia
In Serbia, the National Renewable Energy Action Plan set targets of renewable energy sources use until 2020, as well as the pathway to achieve them. Among other things, it enhances investments towards the development of renewables.
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What Next for the Global Car Industry The importance of the growth in EV sales for the car industry
…car sales to 9% in 2024, almost double the share in 2023. For the same output power, an electric drive is about 60% cheaper, nearly 3 times lighter and generally requires less space than a comparable ICE powertrain. The costs of storage are vastly different: while the fuel tank of an ICE car costs around USD 200, a battery costs around USD 6 500 on average. The value of materials used in a battery electric car is up to 60% higher than in an ICE car, due to the critical mineral content. Demand for refined battery minerals, the supply of which tends to…
