Global Electricity Review 2025
<p>In a world of higher electricity demand growth, clean electricity is stepping up to the challenge. Spearheaded by exponential solar expansion, clean power is set to grow faster than demand, marking
Fossil Fuels
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Update: accounting for well-to-wake carbon dioxide equivalent emissions in maritime transportation climate policies
This briefing paper explains how policymakers can account for well-to-wake (WTW) carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e) emissions in strategies that aim to monitor or regulate climate-warming pollutants from
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Demanding power: struggles over fuel access in Nigeria
Using a multi-method approach, this study focuses on the period between 2007 and 2017 to investigate the dynamics of fuel protest in Nigeria to ask how, and under which conditions, struggles over energy
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Impacts of climate change policies on Developing Country export markets
Climate change policies including net-zero commitments, green new deals, and circular economy plans often combine carbon-reduction objectives with a set of policy and market interventions needed to reach
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Global investors move into renewable infrastructure
Despite the economic disruption from COVID-19, top global debt and equity investors are continuing to drive capital into the renewable energy infrastructure sector due to its consistency in providing investment
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Cutting emissions through fossil fuel subsidy reform and taxation
This report models the climate change mitigation potential of fossil fuel subsidy reform across 32 countries. The results show how much greenhouse gas emissions - both in per cent as well as in absolute
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Reach for the sun: the emerging market electricity leapfrog
This study provides an overview of the emerging market electricity leapfrog. It demonstrates that emerging markets will not follow the same path to renewables as the developed markets. The study discusses
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Electricity market report – July 2021
When the IEA published its first Electricity Market Report in December 2020, large parts of the world were in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic and its resulting lockdowns. Half a year later, electricity
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Tapping the potential of NDCs and LT-LEDS to address fossil fuel production
This analysis finds that a growing number of countries are addressing fossil fuels as part of their climate mitigation activities. The need for a managed transition away from fossil fuel production raises
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Covid-19 and the future of energy in the Asia-Pacific: building back better
This study examines three countries in detail – Pakistan, Fiji, and Lao PDR –through a long term energy alternatives planning (LEAP) model that is based on three different scenarios of economic response
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Strengthening energy security and building resilience in the Asia–Pacific
The study is to examine the new energy security dimensions that are emerging with the advent of the energy transition and to include the impacts of the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic on global energy markets