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Global Energy Review 2026 Technology: Electric vehicles
Electric car sales increased by more than 20% year-on-year in 2025, rising to 21 million units, with one in four cars sold being electric. This was in line with the IEA’s forecast for annual sales share in the 2025 edition of the Global EV Outlook. Intense domestic competition, attractive prices and the growing availability of different models have supported the rapid rollout of EVs in China, with electric cars capturing more than half of all annual car sales for the first time in 2025. Sales of electric heavy-freight trucks also tripled in 2025, reaching more than…
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- Global trends
- Oil
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Equatorial Guinea
Electrification rates are relatively high in Equatorial Guinea at 66%. The country began oil production in the late 1990s and began LNG exports in 2007.
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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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World Energy Investment 2025 Middle East
The Middle East is rich in a wide range of energy resources, which it is looking to develop with a mix of foreign and domestic sources of investment The Middle East holds some of the lowest-cost oil and gas resources in the world, and in 2024 provided around 30% of global oil production and 17% of global natural gas production. Saudi Arabia’s upstream oil and gas investment is the highest in the region, and is set to reach about USD 40 billion in 2025, nearly 15% higher than in 2015. Overall, the Middle East is set to invest about USD 130 billion…
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Southeast Asia Energy Outlook 2026 Executive summary
…focused on managing the short-term energy impacts of the crisis. Measures include demand-restraint (such as promoting public transport and remote working), emergency interventions including price controls and subsidies, and efforts to secure alternative fuel supplies. Price controls and subsidies provide some protection for consumers but come at significant fiscal cost – especially when untargeted – and complicate market adjustments to the disruption. Fossil fuel subsidies in the region were around USD 40 billion prior to the crisis and are set to rise sharply in 2026. Looking further ahead, without structural change, the region’s energy import bill could rise sharply…
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Global EV Outlook 2025 Trends in the electric car industry
Manufacturing and trade Steady growth in global electric car production masks differences at the regional level A total 17.3 million electric cars were produced worldwide in 2024, about one-quarter more than in 2023, largely as a result of increased production in China, which reached 12.4 million electric cars. China remains the world’s electric car manufacturing hub, accounting for more than 70% of global production in 2024. Production in China has been increasingly shaped by the expansion of domestic manufacturers. In 2024, Chinese OEMs accounted for more than 80% of domestic production, up from roughly two-thirds in 2021…
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Global Methane Tracker 2025 Regional insights
…Routine Flaring by 2030 Initiative or the Global Methane Pledge, and near zero upstream methane targets set as part of the OGDC or the OGMP 2.0. In the NZE Scenario, fossil fuel methane emissions in the region fall by around 75% by 2030 and by 85% by 2035, with comprehensive action to deploy all methane abatement measures in the industry. China China is the world’s largest emitter of methane and coal mines are its main source of energy-sector methane emissions. China produces and consumes more than half the global supply of coal. Emissions have risen in tandem...
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China’s Official Energy Finance in Emerging and Developing Economies Case 7. Palembang waste-to-energy plant
…cutting methane emissions, and improving local environmental conditions. The project broke ground in September 2024 with China Power Engineering Consulting Group as the EPC contractor, with operations expected to start in 2026. It contributes directly to Indonesia’s plan to deploy 30 WTE plants nationwide by 2029 and support the country’s broader low-carbon and circular-economy goals. Financing model and China’s role The project is structured as a build–own–operate public–private partnership under a 30-year concession. The Palembang municipal government guarantees waste supply and pays a regulated waste-treatment fee – capped at IDR 500 000…
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Energy Efficiency 2024 How is the dumping of inefficient equipment affecting efficiency progress?
…the sub-Saharan Africa region is only 3.1 W/W, while it is 4.7 in Southeast Asia, close to the 5‑6.5 W/W the NZE Scenario foresees by 2030. At the same time, household budgets for the purchase and use of appliances differ strongly due to global wealth and income inequalities. The result is that access to efficient appliances that reduce household energy expenditure is very unevenly distributed.In addition, lower efficiency equipment, both new and second-hand, is typically exported to lower-income countries, thereby hindering the local market's ability to develop more efficient products. This practice…
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Global Methane Tracker 2025 Policies
…are backed by detailed policies and regulations Methane pledges cover 80% of global fossil fuel production, with the largest initiative being the Global Methane Pledge (GMP). Countries that participate in the GMP commit to work together to collectively reduce global methane emissions from human activity (across all sources, not limited to energy) by at least 30% below 2020 levels by 2030. Cutting the world’s methane emissions by 30% over the next decade would have the same impact on global warming by mid-century as immediately shifting the global transport sector to net zero CO2 emissions.In 2024, Azerbaijan, Tajikistan…
