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Energy policy

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5/2/2025 News

Japan’s draft energy strategy attracts criticism on clean energy and decarbonisation grounds

Japan has published a draft of its seventh Strategic Energy Plan (SEP), which outlines the country’s energy transition goals for 2040. The plan has been criticised by energy think tanks and climate analysts for a lack of ambition in renewable energy adoption, coal phase-out and fossil fuel reduction. Those issues could, they say, potentially jeopardise Japan’s decarbonisation efforts and economic stability.

Renewables

Head and shoulders photo ofSteveH-optimised-web Steve Hodgson, Editor-at-Large, New Energy World

8/2/2023 Comment / Steve Hodgson

Let’s aim high – only renewables and storage

There is a growing radical edge to the latest academic thinking about global energy futures that is turning against the continued use of fossil fuels as a bridge to the future. New Energy World’s Editor-at-Large Steve Hodgson has been reading about it.

Energy transition

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13/8/2025 Comment / Steve Hodgson

Where are you on the energy transition spectrum?

We live in strange times, with dissent over how to reduce greenhouse gas emissions – and whether this is important at all – breaking out in the US and elsewhere. While others see an inevitable clean energy future arriving very soon. Steve Hodgson FEI, Editor-at-Large at New Energy World ponders.

Transport

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24/7/2024 News

Transport’s dependence on fossil fuels holding back the energy transition

As one of the most energy intensive sectors, transport is still heavily dependent on fossil fuels, holding back the energy transition while exacerbating climate change, according to a new report by REN21. Meanwhile, a new partnership has unveiled the UK’s first EV charging station to be powered directly by on-site wind.

Energy transition

Amin H Nasser. Saudi Aramco President and CEO

27/3/2024 News

Saudi Aramco CEO calls phasing out oil and gas a ‘fantasy’

Saudi Aramco President and CEO Amin H Nasser said that the current energy transition strategy is ‘visibly failing’ on a number of fronts and has called on countries to abandon the ‘fantasy’ of phasing out oil and gas. The contentious remarks from the head of the world’s largest oil producer were made in the same week as a new report from IRENA concludes that an ‘urgent global course correction’ is needed to meet the COP28 goal of tripling renewables power capacity by 2030.

COP

25/10/2023 Comment / Rachel Kyte

COP28 Perspective: Can we expect the UAE to speed up the energy transition?

The UN's annual Conference of the Parties (COP28) will take place in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in November and December. Rachel Kyte CMG HonFEI, Dean Emerita of The Fletcher School at Tufts, a director of the Private Infrastructure Development Group (PIDG), an advisor to private, public and philanthropic capital on climate transitions, and a member of the G20 Independent Expert Group on multilateral development bank reform, presents her thoughts.

Finance and investment

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11/6/2025 News

Global energy investment is set to rise to $3.3tn in 2025 amid economic uncertainty and energy security concerns

A surge in global energy investment (clean technologies + oil and gas) to a record $3.3tn in 2025 is forecast by the International Energy Agency (IEA), with clean energy expected to command double the capital of fossil fuels. But a new KPMG survey suggests that investor appetite is being tempered by policy uncertainty and tech risks.

Energy transition

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3/12/2025 Comment / Kinga Niemczyk

Fossil fuels to continue; cleaner energy later – Energy Barometer 2025: Insights from ASEAN’s energy workforce

This year, the Energy Institute’s Energy Barometer draws on the insights from a regional energy workforce that reflects a local transition that is ambitious yet pragmatic: one that recognises the realistic role fossil fuels will continue to play, looks ahead to emerging clean energy technologies, and underscores the need for deeper regional cooperation, stronger policy frameworks and an energy transition that benefits all communities, writes Energy Institute Senior Analyst Kinga Niemczyk AMEI.

Offshore wind

10/1/2024 News

Boost for UK offshore wind

The UK’s offshore wind sector started 2024 on a positive note with RWE announcing its acquisition of three large offshore wind farm projects in late December, Ørsted making its final investment decision (FID) on Hornsea 3, the biggest consented offshore wind project in the world, and UK wind energy generation hitting a new record high.

Oil markets

2/7/2025 News

Oil supply growth outpaces demand as fossil fuel phaseout could fall short ahead of COP30

Oil markets are undergoing significant shifts as global oil supply growth is set to outpace demand through 2030, driven by slowing consumption in China and reduced US shale expansion, according to the latest International Energy Agency (IEA) outlook. Meanwhile, new analysis from E3G and Zero Carbon Analytics reveals that while more countries are signalling a move away from fossil fuels in their updated climate plans, only a few have made concrete commitments, leaving the pace of change too slow to meet global climate targets.

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Japan’s draft energy strategy attracts criticism on clean energy and decarbonisation grounds

Let’s aim high – only renewables and storage

Where are you on the energy transition spectrum?

Transport’s dependence on fossil fuels holding back the energy transition

Saudi Aramco CEO calls phasing out oil and gas a ‘fantasy’

COP28 Perspective: Can we expect the UAE to speed up the energy transition?

Global energy investment is set to rise to $3.3tn in 2025 amid economic uncertainty and energy security concerns

Fossil fuels to continue; cleaner energy later – Energy Barometer 2025: Insights from ASEAN’s energy workforce

Boost for UK offshore wind

Oil supply growth outpaces demand as fossil fuel phaseout could fall short ahead of COP30