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What Next for the Global Car Industry The importance of the growth in EV sales for the car industry
…than one-fifth of all cars sold globally were electric. Policies remain key to growth in many regions, although falling prices make affordability an increasingly important driver. In China, two-thirds of battery electric cars sold in 2024 were cheaper than internal combustion engine (ICE) equivalents. In other major markets like Europe and North America, electric cars remain more expensive on average. But prices have been falling in many emerging economies on the back of affordable Chinese imports; in Southeast Asia, this helped push the share of electric car sales to 9% in 2024, almost double the share in 2023…
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World Energy Outlook 2025 Overview and key findings
…energy demand to 2050, albeit at different speeds, with emerging market and developing economies driving the increase, led by India and Southeast Asia. Differences in the pace at which new technologies are brought into the energy system are reflected in the trajectories for fossil fuels. In the CPS, oil and natural gas demand continue to grow to mid-century, although coal goes into decline before 2030. In the STEPS, coal use peaks earlier than in the CPS and oil demand flattens by the end of the decade, but natural gas demand continues to grow into the 2030s, as a wave…
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Yemen
In Yemen, less than half of the population has access to electricity. In 2010, the government launched a National Strategy for renewable energy and energy efficiency, which aims to develop grid and off-grid renewable energy and targets a 15% share of renewable electricity generation by 2025.
- Overview
- Energy mix
- Emissions
- Electricity
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Outlook for Biogas and Biomethane Assessing the sustainable potential and cost of feedstocks for biogas and biomethane
…gas produced from a feedstock through anaerobic digestion, primarily methane (CH₄) and CO₂. Methane yield, by contrast, accounts only for the methane portion, which is the component usable as fuel. For this report, we considered the methane yield per tonne of dry matter for a range of different feedstocks. Emerging market and developing economies account for 80% of the global potential for biogases, which is concentrated in countries where the agricultural sector plays a prominent role in the economy. India, Brazil, and China lead the way with high biogases potential from cereal crop residues, sugar crop residues, and manure respectively…
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Renewables
Ensure renewable energy policy stability and predictability
For all renewable power and heat technologies, long-term targets and policy stability are essential to ensure investor confidence and continued growth. At the same time, policies need to adapt continuously to changing market conditions to achieve greater cost-competitiveness and to improve the integration of renewables into the energy system.
Focus on an energy system perspective
Achieving a high penetration of renewable power and heat technologies is a necessary condition to decarbonise many carbon-intensive sectors of the economy, including heavy industry, construction and transport. The expansion of renewable hydrogen use, emissions…
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Colombia
Colombia launched the Energy Plan 2050 in 2016 , which aims to diversify the country’s energy resources and ensure a reliable energy supply by including wind power plants, solar PV and geothermal energy generation in the country's electric mix.
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- Energy mix
- Emissions
- Electricity
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Powering Ireland’s Energy Future Executive summary
…strong links to the country's power sector, with implications for electricity demand, infrastructure and supply. In this context, it will be key for Ireland to consolidate its wider strategic vision and integrate it with longer-term power system planning. This will help set priorities and guide market and system development, while allowing potential trade-offs to be proactively identified and managed, where possible.Ireland has a long track record of transforming its power system while managing strong electricity demand growth. In 2024, Ireland supplied about one-third of its electricity from wind, four times the global average and second…
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Financing the Modernisation of Power Systems Beyond Coal Executive summary
…This report examines how transition credits could be designed to accelerate a coal transition for those countries seeking to do so, while maintaining energy security and grid reliability. This report focuses primarily on Southeast Asia, where coal remains an integral part of the electricity mix and where many of the current discussions and pilot initiatives for transition credits are concentrated.Despite rapid growth in renewables, coal remains critical to meet growing electricity demand and fulfil key power system needs. Coal use is in structural decline in advanced economies, but it continues to play a central role in some emerging market…
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Energy and AI AI for energy optimisation and innovation
…of considering the full theoretical potential of AI-led interventions, as it factors in certain insurmountable structural issues that would block their complete adoption. For example, we consider variations in adoption by region by factoring in the availability of enabling digital infrastructure. AI applications for optimising energy systems Oil and gas companies have been among the earliest adopters of new technologies to boost exploration and production. In 2000, 11 supercomputers operated by oil and gas companies ranked among the world’s 500 fastest. By 2024, this number had increased to 24, and total computing capacity has grown at almost 70…
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Financing Clean Energy in Africa Mobilising capital for a sustainable future
…although investor expectations of project size and risk–return profile may mean they require blending with concessional sources in riskier areas. Investors can provide debt via the sustainable bond market and refinancing tools can be used to replace public or DFI capital in brownfield assets with private sources. Private equity and venture capital also play a key role in funding start-ups to support the development of local industry, including in relation to off-grid electricity and clean cooking solutions.Although a small player now, over the long term domestic markets are fundamental to energy sector development. Under the SAS…
