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World Energy Investment 2025 Africa
…energy projects in Africa has fallen by approximately one-third in the last ten years, reaching USD 20 billion in 2024, largely due to a reduction of more than 85% in spending by Chinese DFIs. While representing a small share of overall spending, the public sector and DFIs are particularly important for projects in nascent markets, using new technologies or in commercially unviable areas where it can be challenging for private sector investment relying on concessional funds to ensure profitability. Against this backdrop, private equity and venture capital play a key role in financing early-stage businesses, especially in energy…
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Global Energy Review 2026 Technology: Electric vehicles
…reintroduction of purchase subsidies in those two countries. Other large-volume markets saw growth in electric car sales as well. In Poland, sales increased by 140%, while the Netherlands saw a 25% rise. In France, sales volumes were similar to 2024. Europe as a whole overtook China as the fastest growing major market for electric cars. In the United Kingdom, sales rose by over 25%. In Norway, battery electric cars reached a record 96% share of all car sales. Electric medium- and heavy- freight truck sales also started to pick up in Europe, increasing by around 40% and reaching a…
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Uzbekistan
Despite being energy self-sufficient thanks to its gas sector, Uzbekistan's ageing infrastructure struggles to meet growing domestic demand. Losses, overuse and financing remain problematic. Wide-ranging reforms focused on improving and diversification the energy sector are being introduced and the government has adopted the Strategy of Actions 2017-2021, which prioritizes improving energy efficiency and increasing generating capacity and use of renewables. Uzbekistan is part of the EU4Energy Programme, an initiative focused on evidence-based policymaking for the energy sector.
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Singapore
…and third party access to facilities such as gas storage is under development. These moves put Singapore ahead of most countries in the Asia-Pacific region and in a good position for a hub-style market to develop.
Singapore’s energy policies have also set strong objectives to 2030, including improving the country’s energy efficiency by 36% from 2005 level. Among other measures in support of this target, Singapore introduced energy efficiency standards and labelling for lamps in 2015. The government also plans to increase solar PV capacity and to reduce the country’s greenhouse gas emissions by 16…- Overview
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World Energy Investment 2025 India
…air conditioners and appliances, and rising demand from industry. India has seen the third-largest growth in power generation capacity in the world after China and the United States over the past five years. While growth in power generation has come from all sources, there has been a surge in investment in renewables, led by solar PV, which constitutes more than half of total non-fossil investment over this period. In 2024, 83% of power sector investment went to clean energy. India was also the world’s largest recipient of development finance (DFI) funding in 2024, receiving around USD 2.4 billion…
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Data centre electricity use surged in 2025, even with tightening bottlenecks driving a scramble for solutions
…at the end of 2024 to 45 gigawatts today, indicating that the momentum behind AI could accelerate the commercialisation of new energy technologies. Constrained by slow grid connections, data centre developers are also advancing a large number of projects with onsite natural gas-based power generation, largely in the United States. First-of-its-kind IEA data from satellite-based tracking shows that many of these projects remain in their early stages, highlighting the technical and financial hurdles that need to be overcome. One of the key challenges is that AI data centres have rapid and large swings in demand…
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Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia has moved forward in the implementation of energy efficiency standards on key sectors and end-uses linked to their energy saving potential. These standards are focused on and the transport and building sectors. For example, new buildings are now required to be insulated.
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United Kingdom
The United Kingdom has been an early player in the energy transition, being among the first countries to set a net zero target by 2050 and to put in place carbon budgets. UK emissions have already fallen by around 50% since 1990, indicating a strong start. Looking ahead, an important pillar of the energy transition will be decarbonising the power sector through sizeable new investments in renewables and nuclear while also focusing on new technologies such as CCUS, hydrogen and small modular reactors. As a historic oil and gas producer, the UK is looking to address declining North Sea production…
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Moldova
Moldova is almost fully dependent on fossil fuel and electricity imports, with natural gas serving most of its energy needs. The government plans to diversify the energy mix with renewables such as wind and solar. Moldova is part of the EU4Energy Programme, which focuses on improving evidence-based policy making for the energy sector.
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World Energy Investment 2025 European Union
…renewable electricity from southern parts of the European Union to high-demand areas. These challenges are compounded by supply chain constraints, with EU component prices having more than doubled over the last decade. Moreover, trade in transformers is dominated by China, which accounts for 60% of EU imports.The European Union also faces the challenge of deeper market integration. Despite significant investment in low-emissions technologies, average energy prices in Europe are higher than in other major economies. The EU energy market has also experienced notable disparities in spot prices among member states. As EU market prices rose in 2024…
