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Energy Efficiency Policy Toolkit Financing Energy Efficiency
Global energy investment continues to grow despite a challenging geopolitical environment. According to the IEA’s World Energy Investment 2026 report, total spending is expected to reach USD 3.4 trillion in 2026, a 5% increase from 2025. Clean energy investment is projected to remain around USD 2.2 trillion, representing nearly two‑thirds of total energy spending and continuing to outpace fossil fuels. Investment in electricity systems such as grids, storage, and electrification, is increasingly driven by energy security concerns and rising electricity demand. Energy efficiency also remains essential to strengthening system resilience, reducing costs for consumers and businesses, and lowering greenhouse gas emissions…
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Energy Efficiency Policy Toolkit Clean Efficient Cooking
Clean Efficient Cooking
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Ramping up Heat Pumps in Moldova: A Roadmap A pathway for heat pumps
Heat pumps can strengthen Moldova’s energy security, independence, air pollution and emissions, and even improve energy affordability. Given the regional turmoil – notably in the energy sector – over the past three years and into early 2025, there is a compelling case for reducing natural gas consumption by deploying heat pumps. While Moldova is only beginning to realise its heat pump potential, this presents a significant opportunity to design the system effectively – by stimulating demand, expanding supply, financing the transition and establishing clear regulations. A comprehensive approach will help to ensure a steady and orderly deployment. The following table recommends specific…
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World Energy Investment 2025 Executive summary
…that some investors are adopting a wait-and-see approach to new project approvals, but we have yet to see significant implications for spending on existing projects. Rapid growth in spending on energy transitions over the past five years was kicked off by post-pandemic recovery packages and then sustained by a variety of economic, technology, industrial and energy security considerations, not only by climate policies. Some 70% of the increased spending came from net fossil fuel importers. This was led by China’s drive to reduce reliance on oil and gas imports and exert leadership in new technology areas…
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Stepping Up the Value Chain in Africa Executive summary
Africa is endowed with vast energy resources – fossil fuels, but also solar, wind, hydro, and geothermal – and yet energy supply remains limited: Around 600 million people on the continent lack reliable access to electricity. This energy gap constrains economic growth and industrial potential, particularly in rural areas where agriculture remains the dominant sector in the economy. As African economies grow and urbanise, the demand for energy-intensive industries and infrastructure is rising. Strategic investments in sustainable industrialisation can create a virtuous cycle that expands energy access and drives productivity, which in turn can attract more investment.Market opportunities already exist. Globally…
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World Energy Employment 2025 Executive summary
…representing nearly three-quarters of all energy job additions. Solar PV has been the principal driver of demand, accounting for half of the job additions in the electricity sector since 2019. Nuclear power, grids and storage accounted for another quarter of new power sector jobs seen since 2019, despite facing multiple headwinds such as increased component costs and shortages of skilled workers. Persistent challenges in the offshore power market have also slowed wind employment growth, with layoffs in turbine manufacturing, where jobs declined by 6% in 2024.The shift to electrification is also changing the nature of employment in related…
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Electricity 2026 Demand
…is now rising again after a 15-year period of stagnation. The resurgence signals a new era in which electricity is a major energy input to some of the most dynamic drivers of global economies, such as artificial intelligence (AI), data centres, advanced manufacturing, and the “electrification of everything”. As a result, both total and per capita electricity consumption will reach new record highs in many regions of the world through 2030.This chapter presents our global electricity demand forecast and a detailed overview of emerging trends in major economies, which highlight the urgent need for greater power system flexibility…
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Global Hydrogen Review 2025 Progress summary dashboard
Progress summary dashboard
