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Access to energy

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1/10/2025 Feature / Charlie Bush

What’s cooking? LPG and the clean cooking challenge in sub-Saharan Africa

Almost one-third of the world’s population, around 2.3 billion people, still rely on open fires or rudimentary stoves to prepare meals. In sub-Saharan Africa, four out of five people cook with wood, charcoal, animal dung or agricultural waste. Charlie Bush considers some of the options available for cleaner cooking, in particular the role of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) as a transitional energy solution.

Shipping

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1/10/2025 Feature / Brian Davis

Sailing towards net zero: shipping advised to pool carbon-neutral fuel demand

October 2025 is the deadline for adoption of the International Maritime Organization’s (IMO) Net-Zero Framework (NZF), aimed to ensure that international shipping can meet carbon neutral greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 2050. A timely report, just released by Swiss marine technology firm Accelleron, hopes to galvanise action and asks: ‘What’s stopping shipping’s carbon neutral fuel transition?’ New Energy World Features Editor Brian Davis reports.

Electricity markets

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1/10/2025 Feature / Janet Wood

The clock is ticking on transformation to a flexible electricity system

The UK’s electricity sector is working towards a complete transformation of the settlement process in the back office. The outcome could offer radically improved consumer propositions from next year, writes Janet Wood.

Energy efficiency / management

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1/10/2025 Comment / George Barnes

Decarbonising UK infrastructure – sustaining momentum beyond policy cycles

We have the technology to decarbonise UK infrastructure, but do we have consistent and long-term funding and policy frameworks to succeed? George Barnes MEI Chartered Energy Manager, Technical Director, Building Performance Lead with global engineering company WSP, considers.

Solar

1/10/2025 News

Two pioneering hybrid renewables projects in Germany and the Philippines aim to design out intermittency

Two renewables projects on opposite sides of the globe are showcasing the next step in integrating multiple generation and/or storage technologies to provide a more stable source of electricity. In Gundelsheim, Bavaria, EnBW has launched the initial stage of what will be Germany’s first ever energy park to combine solar, wind and battery storage. Meanwhile, in Batangas, Citicore Renewable Energy Corporation (CREC) has energised the Philippines’ first solar baseload power plant – a 197 MWp solar photovoltaic (PV) farm paired with a 320 MWh battery energy storage system (BESS).

Sustainable aviation fuels (SAF)

1/10/2025 News

Technology – not feedstock – is key bottleneck to net zero aviation, trade body contends

The aviation industry’s push towards net zero carbon emissions by 2050 is not principally limited by sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) feedstock availability, but by the pace of technology rollout and infrastructure deployment, according to the International Air Transport Association (IATA).

Solar

1/10/2025 News

European manufacturing cost premiums raise solar LCOE 15% above that of Chinese-made panels

Producing a solar module in Europe with EU-made solar cells costs around 18% more than producing the same module in China, according to a new report from SolarPower Europe and Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems (ISE).

Data centres

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24/9/2025 Comment / Ali Ruckteschler

Why data centres are betting on fuel cells and nuclear to power the AI era

Ali Ruckteschler, Senior Vice President & Chief Procurement Officer with US data centre operator Equinix, on how the growth of AI is leading one US company to turn to fuel cells, initially, and a new generation of nuclear technologies to meet future power needs.

Energy storage

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24/9/2025 Feature / Andrew Mourant

Weeding out the duds: what’s driving growth of long-duration energy storage in the UK

A big breakthrough or just another small forward step? One key part of the UK government’s drive to hit net zero targets is by boosting national energy storage to help smooth out gaps between supply of intermittent renewables and variation in electricity demand. In spring 2025, energy regulator Ofgem announced plans to incentivise the best schemes while weeding out the no-hopers. The industry is still digesting how this might work out to everyone’s benefit, reports Andrew Mourant.

Skills, education and training

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24/9/2025 Feature / Promise Chukwukadibia Nwogu

An internship model to close Africa’s green skills gap

As the world races towards net zero, Africa’s transition must not only be rapid but just. With the right approach, young Africans will drive this just transition for themselves. An example of that is a new internship model, piloted in 2025, whose low-cost design, adaptability to different geographies and partial cost-recovery mechanism through employer reimbursements make it a candidate for replication across Africa, writes founder Promise Chukwukadibia Nwogu.

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What’s cooking? LPG and the clean cooking challenge in sub-Saharan Africa

Sailing towards net zero: shipping advised to pool carbon-neutral fuel demand

The clock is ticking on transformation to a flexible electricity system

Decarbonising UK infrastructure – sustaining momentum beyond policy cycles

Two pioneering hybrid renewables projects in Germany and the Philippines aim to design out intermittency

Technology – not feedstock – is key bottleneck to net zero aviation, trade body contends

European manufacturing cost premiums raise solar LCOE 15% above that of Chinese-made panels

Why data centres are betting on fuel cells and nuclear to power the AI era

Weeding out the duds: what’s driving growth of long-duration energy storage in the UK

An internship model to close Africa’s green skills gap