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Energy and AI Executive summary
The transformative potential of AI depends on energy There has been a step change in the capabilities of artificial intelligence (AI), driven by falling computation costs, a surge in data availability and technical breakthroughs. AI is the science of making machines capable of learning to perform tasks that traditionally required human intelligence. AI is emerging as a general-purpose technology, much like electricity. Today, it can generate text and videos, accelerate scientific discovery in fields like medicine or materials science, make manufacturing robots smarter and more productive, drive commercial taxis in complex city landscapes, and detect threats to critical infrastructure…
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Key Questions on Energy and AI Executive summary
The AI and energy nexus continues to evolve rapidly The largest technology companies are contributing to a surge in data centre investment, as their capital expenditure exceeded USD 400 billion in 2025 – and is expected to jump by another 75% in 2026. Capital expenditure of just five technology companies is now larger than global investment in oil and natural gas production. Many jurisdictions are seeing project pipelines accelerate dramatically, although not all projects will come to fruition. Those that are moving forward are doing so at pace: the IEA’s unique satellite-based tracking shows that “artificial intelligence (AI) factories…
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Energy Innovation
CERT co-ordinates and promotes the development, demonstration and deployment of clean energy technologies. The CERT has established five working parties: the Working Party on Fossil Energy; the Working Party on Renewable Energy Technologies; the Working Party on Energy End-Use Technologies; the Fusion Power Co-ordinating Committee and the Working Party of Industrial Decarbonisation. The CERT has also established an Experts' Group on R&D Priority-Setting and Evaluation (EGRD) to advise on R&D priority-setting, linkages to governmental policy objectives and methods in the evaluation of R&D activities, and an understanding of emerging R&D topics. Energy…
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Breakthrough Agenda Report 2025 Road transport
State of the transition Emissions Road sector emissions were just over 6 Gt CO₂ in 2024, 8% higher than in 2015. Growth averaged only 0.2% annually from 2019 to 2024, down from 1.7% per year between 2015 and 2019.Over 60% of road emissions are from passenger cars or vans, followed by trucks (about one-third), and buses and 2/3 wheelers just 7%.Since 2015, emissions in emerging economies (excluding China) have risen sharply, at over 18%, compared to 2.5% in the rest of the world. Cost Closing the purchase price gap between electric and conventional…
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Funding to promote green heating and phasing down the use of natural gas
The Danish government has decided to allocate DKK 250 million in 2022 to promote green heating and phasing down the use of natural gas in Denmark, reducing reliance on Russian gas in the process. This includes:Expanding the 'disconnection scheme', which covers the cost of disconnecting households from gas boilers in favour of heat pumps.Energy saving activities, such as expanding the Boliganalysen scheme and SparEnergi.dk website to help municipalities present energy saving advice or clean heating conversion information.Municipal action for the roll-out of district heating, such as support for planning, project approvals and cooperation with district…
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Eurasian Economic Union - Iran Free Trade Agreement FTA
The Free Trade Agreement between Iran and the Eurasian Economic Union initially entered into force in 2019. The Russian Federation joined it in 2023.The Agreement provides for the reduction or elimination of customs duties, including for: Motor vehicles for the transport of ten or more persons,including station wagons and racing cars iron, cast iron, and steel, enamelled Cathodes and sections of cathodes Rules of Origin delineated in the Agreement state that goods may benefit from preferential tariff treatment if wholly obtained or produced on the territory of a Party using non-originating materials under specific conditions (eg. the total value of…
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Revised Domestic Gas Pricing
The natural gas price in India as per the 2014 guidelines is fixed every six months based on the weighted average price of four global benchmarks (Henry Hub, Alberta gas, NBP, and Russian gas). In April 2023, the Indian government approved revisions of the guidelines under the administered price mechanism (APM), which mainly applies to gas produced by legacy fields and national oil companies (ONGC, OIL). Key revisions of the guidelines include: The price of gas under the APM is benchmarked on a monthly basis to the price of imported crude (Indian Crude Basket) instead of the four global benchmarksThe…
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Auction mechanism for the construction of maneuverable capacities
…is a surplus of power generation capactities (2000 MW) in Kazakhstan, however it is accompanied with the shortage of maneuverable capacities. System operator is forced to use the regulation of the Russian energy system. With the adoption of the Law "On Amendments and Additions to Certain Legislative Acts of the Republic of Kazakhstan on Supporting the Use of Renewable Energy Sources and Electricity" on December 7th 2020, the selection of projects for the creation of flexible generation will be carried out through the use of an auctioning mechanism. It is expected that it will give impetus to the construction of…
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Energy audits and energy passports
…of the Russian Federation " requires energy audits to be undertaken with respect to products, buildings, structures, and technological processes, as well as legal entities and individual entrepreneurs, with a view to ascertaining amounts of energy resources used, and gauging energy efficiency and the potential for energy savings and energy efficiency increases, as well as planning and estimating supportive measures.The findings of an energy audit are to be recorded in an "energy passport". Self-regulatory organizations are to send copies of energy passports of mandatory audited organization to the duly authorized state authority. Subject to Russian commercial secrecy…
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Microclimate Parameters in Residential and Public Buildings
Established in 1996, the code for the temperature and humidity of indoor inclosures was among the first Russian building codes to account for building efficiency and energy consumption.