Category: Knowledge Centre

European EV Market Monitor: Report

European EV Market Monitor: Report

Oct 28, 2026 | , ,

In September 2026, 31% of new vehicles in Europe were battery electric. This brings the average share for January–September 2026 to 24%, a 7-percentage-point or 45% increase over the same period in 2025. Meanwhile, the market share of plug-in hybrid cars increased 1 percentage point, reaching a 10% share. Registrations of conventional combustion engine cars fell by 10 percentage points to a 28% market share in January–September 2026, while mild hybrids and full hybrids increased their shares to 24% and 14%, respectively, an increase of 1 percentage point for each vehicle type.

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Renewables for Energy Independence in Caribbean: Report

Renewables for Energy Independence in Caribbean: Report

Oct 28, 2026 | , ,

Renewables supply less than a tenth of Caribbean electricity, and the region depends on international fuel markets to generate the rest. Contracts signed in the region itself show that fossil generation is no longer the cheapest way to produce electricity. Many countries have set renewable targets, but not all can be measured. Of those that can be measured, none are on track. This report titled, “Renewable Caribbean: towards energy independence” published by EMBER, examines fossil power dependence in thirteen Caribbean countries.

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Managing US Offshore Wind Amid Uncertainty: Report

Managing US Offshore Wind Amid Uncertainty: Report

Oct 28, 2026 | , , ,

Despite current headwinds from the Trump administration, offshore wind energy is essential for transitioning away from harmful fossil fuels to a clean energy economy. Offshore wind could provide more than three times the electricity required to power the United States, giving the country an opportunity to fight climate change, reduce local and regional air and water pollution, and grow a new industry that supports thousands of high-quality careers.

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US Energy Zones for Community and State Needs: Brief 

US Energy Zones for Community and State Needs: Brief 

Oct 27, 2026 | ,

Energy Zones are emerging as a proactive statewide planning strategy to identify areas well suited for future energy development. They also create an opportunity to improve how communities participate in planning and how tangible benefits from new infrastructure reach host communities. Today, generation and grid development often proceeds project by project. Communities and local governments may face repeated, uncoordinated engagement from multiple developers, while community benefits are negotiated separately for each project. This can increase demands on communities, push local input later in the planning process, and produce fragmented engagement and benefit outcomes.

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Bridging the Critical Minerals Divide: Briefing

Bridging the Critical Minerals Divide: Briefing

Oct 27, 2026 | ,

The search for secure mineral supplies creates an opening to negotiate how the costs and benefits of the clean transition are shared. While developed economies aim to diversify supply chains and reduce reliance on China, resource-rich countries are pushing for local value creation (beneficiation). For critical mineral partnerships to succeed, importing economies must respond to producer countries’ industrial ambitions while pursuing their own geoeconomic interest. The policy briefing “Bridging the Critical Minerals Divide: Aligning supply security and producer-country development” published by E3G examines why current critical mineral partnerships are struggling to move from diplomatic announcements to delivery.

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Decarbonizing Japan’s Steel Industry: Presentation

Decarbonizing Japan’s Steel Industry: Presentation

Oct 27, 2026 | , ,

The iron and steel industry is the largest source of GHG emissions in Japan’s industrial sector. Making steady progress in the sector’s decarbonization is therefore essential for achieving carbon neutrality by 2050.  The iron and steel industry has long been regarded as a “hard-to-abate” sector because conventional steelmaking methods, which rely heavily on coal, need to be fundamentally transformed. Nevertheless, demonstration projects and commercial-scale investments are advancing around the world, accelerating the shift toward new steelmaking processes.

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Plugging Storage into India’s Rooftop Solar Revolution: Report

Plugging Storage into India’s Rooftop Solar Revolution: Report

Oct 23, 2026 | , ,

Rooftop solar accounts for 19% of India’s total installed solar capacity as of July 2026, concentrated in ten Indian states: India’s total installed solar capacity reached 164.6 GW in July 2026, of which 30.7 GW comes from rooftop solar capacity. This rooftop solar share tripled since 2019 from 6% to 19%, demonstrating a significant growth led by Gujarat, Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Haryana, Madhya Pradesh, Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh. Residential consumers now account for half of India’s rooftop solar capacity: Residential rooftop solar capacity under PM Surya Ghar: Muft Bijli Yojana stood at 14.9 GW across 5 million households as of July 2026, with ~88% of it concentrated in ten states.

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US Transmission Expansion: Report

US Transmission Expansion: Report

Oct 23, 2026 | , ,

The US electricity system is expected to see substantial demand growth through the mid-2030s, driven by commercial and industrial expansion, including advanced manufacturing, data centres and domestic industrial growth, alongside electrification. To assess the transmission investment needed to support this growth and broader economic and national security priorities, S&P Global Energy released the study “Powering Growth and Affordability: The Role of Transmission in Economic and National Security”, supported by the Electricity Customer Alliance and National Grid, with Converge Strategies responsible for national security and defence aspects.

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Lowering Great Britain’s Electricity Bills: E3G Report

Lowering Great Britain’s Electricity Bills: E3G Report

Oct 23, 2026 | , ,

The report, “Lowering Great Britain’s electricity bills – recommendations for government” examines that, the once-again rising gas price is set to further fuel inflation and the cost-of-living crisis in the UK, with electricity bills not projected to fall again until the 2030s. However, with the right package of interventions, targeting each component of a bill, government could lower household and business electricity bills by approximately 20% by 2030. Only two actions can immediately lower bills: removing levies from bills and improving targeted support for households in fuel poverty and trade-exposed businesses.

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U.S. Power Sector Shift: Report

U.S. Power Sector Shift: Report

Oct 16, 2026 | , ,

Clean power growth slows while fossil power rebounds: Clean power continues to account for the largest share of planned U.S. power sector development, the “pipeline” of future capacity, but growth has slowed from its 2024 peak. Meanwhile, fossil power announcements have increased since 2022, suggesting electric utilities and energy developers are recalibrating their priorities in response to evolving federal policy and projected rapid load growth, relying on methods to evaluate resource adequacy that favor traditional dispatchable resources.

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Unsupported Renewables: CEER Report

Unsupported Renewables: CEER Report

Oct 16, 2026 | , ,

The coming years, with rising capacity reaching the end of support, will show whether and how Member Countries adapt their legal schemes, including to make decommissioning less attractive. Challenges such as balancing responsibility and small operators’ market participation may intensify as more installations leave support. The data provided by regulators is published alongside the report so readers can carry out their own analysis. Some of it does not clearly distinguish between post-support installations and those that never received support.

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World Energy Transition: IRENA Report

World Energy Transition: IRENA Report

Oct 16, 2026 | ,

The report titled “World Energy Transition Outlook 2026” published by the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) examines that, the global energy transition has entered a new phase. Renewable energy deployment continues to break records, technology costs have fallen significantly and electrification is advancing across transport, buildings and industry. Compared with previous editions of the World Energy Transition Outlook, current government plans target higher renewable energy deployment, greater electrification of end-use sectors and a focus on clean hydrogen and enabling technologies.

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Making California’s Electricity Cheaper: Report

Making California’s Electricity Cheaper: Report

Oct 9, 2026 | , ,

Affordability is at the heart of almost every policy conversation across the nation, and California is facing a particularly acute energy affordability crisis — the state’s electricity rates are now the second highest in the nation and double the country’s average. Between 2000 and 2024, California’s electricity rates rose faster than inflation and became the highest in the contiguous United States, more than 50% higher than the US average. These prices are untenable, straining household budgets, and threatening the state’s electrification path to a climate-neutral economy. More than 80% of Californians rank lowering bills as a top or important priority for state leaders, and the state’s elected officials have a duty to address these intertwined problems for their constituents.

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EU Mid-Year Solar Market Update: Report

EU Mid-Year Solar Market Update: Report

Oct 9, 2026 | , , ,

The report highlights that, the first half of 2026 has shown a more resilient EU solar market than anticipated, but not an improvement in its underlying fundamentals. The renewed fossil fuel crisis has strengthened the economic and energy-security case for solar and supported demand in several markets, helping compensate for weakening support schemes and continued regulatory and grid constraints. Against this backdrop, preliminary country data indicate that the EU solar market grew slightly in H1. At the same time, the EU’s solar fleet once again demonstrated its strategic value, shielding consumers and businesses from fossil fuel price spikes and supporting Europe’s power system during a summer.

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Financing ASEAN’s Energy Transition: Report

Financing ASEAN’s Energy Transition: Report

Oct 9, 2026 | , ,

ASEAN has seen some success in getting capital to flow to utility-scale renewable energy projects. But that success does not extend downwards or outwards. Returns fall away sharply as project sizes shrink, storage sits at less than a third of the pipeline the region needs by 2030, and transmission earns single-digit returns that keep private capital away. Market design, more than capital or technology, is now the constraint for financing the region’s energy transition. This analysis finds that what complicates matters more is that ASEAN’s next phase of energy transition will move beyond utility-scale generation projects towards thousands of smaller distributed systems rather than a handful of large plants, on storage to absorb variable output, and on transmission to move power to where it is needed.

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Climate Finance in Latin America and the Caribbean: Report

Climate Finance in Latin America and the Caribbean: Report

Oct 1, 2026 | , ,

Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) has significant climate investment opportunities and some relatively mature markets, but climate finance remains far below needs and highly uneven across countries, sectors, and climate objectives. Brazil, Mexico, and several larger South American economies have deeper capital markets and larger project pipelines than other countries in the region, along with significant opportunities in renewable energy, industry, and land use. By contrast, other Caribbean, Central and South American countries face smaller markets, high exposure to climate shocks, greater dependence on imported fuels and more constrained fiscal space.

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Estonia’s Energy Transition: Paper

Estonia’s Energy Transition: Paper

Oct 1, 2026 | , ,

Estonia’s energy transition, driven by the rapid decline of oil shale generation, faces a trilemma between security, affordability, and decarbonization. Using a structural general-equilibrium framework, this paper evaluates the macroeconomic effects of Estonia’s new energy plan, combined with deeper European electricity market integration, EU mitigation policies, the impact of AI-related datacenters and broader electrification pressures. Results show that expanding domestic supply and market integration lowers long-term prices by one-third, increases GDP, reduces import dependence, and supports emissions reduction.

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Carbon Recycling Opportunities in ASEAN: Report

Carbon Recycling Opportunities in ASEAN: Report

Oct 1, 2026 | , ,

The report “Exploring Carbon Recycling Opportunities in ASEAN” is a collaborative study organised by the Asia Carbon Capture, Utilisation, and Storage (CCUS) Network of the Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia to support acceleration of decarbonisation in Asia. To achieve decarbonisation and NZE, there is no single solution that fits for all countries in the region. Natural resource endowments, technical capacities, available funding, and other resources may lead to different pathways in meeting NZE. The objective of this study is to include research institutions from various countries and expose them to potential carbon recycling issues and inclusively provide their thoughts on how to harness the opportunity.

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Policy Resilience in Brazilian Renewable Energy: Brief

Policy Resilience in Brazilian Renewable Energy: Brief

Sep 24, 2026 | , ,

The policy brief titled “Climate and Policy Resilience in Brazilian Renewable Energy” states that the Brazilian context involving a clean-electricity base, a more balanced lobbying landscape, and mounting climate and social pressure, makes it more difficult for the kind of abrupt and unrestrained energy policy swing seen in Colombia. The trend in Brazil tends to be more economically viable for renewables. However, these structural conditions by themselves will not guarantee the success of the transition.

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Myanmar’s Rooftop Off-Grid Solar Market: Report

Myanmar’s Rooftop Off-Grid Solar Market: Report

Sep 24, 2026 | , , ,

Solar is now the most cost-effective electrification option for a growing share of Myanmar’s energy demand. Monthly average diesel prices rose by nearly 900 percent in nominal terms, from MMK 682 per liter in January 2021 to MMK 6,057 per liter in April 2026, industrial grid tariffs increased by 80 percent in February 2026, and the cost of energy from large commercial and industrial (C&I) solar-plus-battery systems is at US$0.205 per kWh, now cheaper than the industrial grid tariff of US$0.250 per kWh. The C&I segment is approaching commercial viability and is likely to continue growing largely on commercial terms.

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