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World Energy Investment 2025 China
Record-breaking renewables investment in China continues, advancing in tandem with the expansion of grid and storage for renewables while keeping coal in the mix In the ten years since the signing of the Paris Agreement and five years since the announcement of the dual carbon goals, China has seen a precipitous rise in clean energy investment, particularly in renewables. In 2024 China’s clean energy investment was more than USD 625 billion, almost doubling since 2015. China also achieved its 2030 wind and solar capacity target in 2024, six years ahead of schedule. While renewable installations are set to continue, investment…
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Electricity Mid-Year Update 2025 Supply: Renewables grow the most, followed by gas and nuclear
…low-emissions energy sources are reaching new milestones globally in our forecast period. Renewables are poised to surpass coal-fired generation, depending on weather trends and economic developments, either as early as 2025 or in 2026. As a result, coal’s share in total generation is set to drop below 33% for the first time in the last 100 years.Solar PV and wind energy are key drivers of this trend, with their combined share in global electricity generation expected to rise from 15% in 2024 to 17% in 2025 and to above 19% in 2026 – up from 4% a decade…
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Average annual spending to fully deploy methane abatement measures in the coal sector, by income category, to 2035
Average annual spending to fully deploy methane abatement measures in the coal sector, by income category, to 2035 Global Methane 2026
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Emissions events detected by the GHGSat constellation from the coal sector, 2024 and 2025
Emissions events detected by the GHGSat constellation from the coal sector, 2024 and 2025 Methane tracker 2026
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World Energy Outlook 2022 An updated roadmap to Net Zero Emissions by 2050
…was published.The global economy rebounded at record speed in 2021 from the COVID-19 pandemic, with GDP growth reaching 5.9%. As energy intensity improvements stalled, global energy demand increased by 5.4%. Surging energy demand was in part met by increased use of coal, resulting in a 1.9 gigatonnes (Gt) jump in emissions in 2021, the largest annual increase in global CO2 emissions from the energy sector ever recorded. This brought total CO2 emissions from the energy sector to 36.6 Gt in 2021. Recent investment in fossil fuel infrastructure not included in the 2021 Net Zero Emissions by…
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World Energy Outlook 2022 Outlook for electricity
…accounts for about 20% of the world’s total final consumption of energy, but its share of energy services is higher due to its efficiency. It is central to many aspects of daily life and becomes more so as electricity spreads to new end-uses, such as electric vehicles (EVs) and heat pumps. The electricity sector accounted for 59% of all the coal used globally in 2021, together with 34% of natural gas, 4% of oil, 52% of all renewables and nearly 100% of nuclear power. It also accounted for over one-third of all energy-related CO2 emissions in…
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China’s Official Energy Finance in Emerging and Developing Economies Dashboard
…provided financing supports. When a specific project spans multiple technologies, they are split proportionally.Fossil fuel supply: Activities related to the extraction, processing and transport of fossil fuels, including coal mining, oil and gas production, liquefaction, refining, pipelines and associated infrastructure. This category covers upstream and midstream supply rather than electricity generation.Fossil fuel generation: Electricity and heat generation using fossil fuels, including coal-, oil- and natural gas–fired power plants. It excludes fossil fuel supply activities and focuses only on power and heat production. Fossil fuel generation projects in this dashboard do not explicitly include carbon capture, utilisation and…
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Global Energy Review 2026 Key findings
…PV, the largest single source of growth, met more than 25% of higher demand, followed by natural gas, which contributed 17%. This was the first time on record that a modern renewable source contributed the largest share of global energy demand growth. Demand for oil, natural gas and coal all grew in 2025, but at a slower rate than in 2024. Low-emissions sources combined – solar, wind, nuclear, hydropower and other renewables – contributed nearly 60% of the growth in global demand.Demand growth in the United States rose to its second highest level since 2000, excluding post-recession rebound years…
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Global Energy Review 2026 Electricity supply
…than the total global increase in generation. In contrast, generation from fossil fuels declined: a modest rise in natural gas-fired generation was outweighed by a decline for coal. Global coal-fired generation fell by around 0.5%, marking the first decrease since the Covid‑driven drop in 2020 and the first decline outside of a period of crisis-related disruption since 2015. As a result, in line with previous IEA forecasts, global renewable generation virtually matched coal-fired generation in 2025. Global renewable generation increased by around 8.5% year-on-year in 2025, slightly slower than the 9.6…
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