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Electricity markets

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3/12/2025 Comment / Lim Eu Shawn,Sarah Suherman

Powering ASEAN’s next chapter: grids, growth and the AI future

Southeast Asia’s energy transition starts from a very different place than the one unfolding in Europe or North America. For the ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) countries, this is not a story of tweaking a mature system at the margins, but of building new power systems fast enough to keep up with factories, cities and digital infrastructure that are still coming online, write Dr Lim Eu Shawn, Chairman of the Energy Institute Malaysia community and Chief Business & Solutions Officer with Aerodyne, and Sarah Suherman AMEI, Assistant Manager, GTM & Business Intelligence, Aerodyne.

Energy security

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7/7/2026 Comment / Fintan Slye

Why the energy trilemma is not a zero-sum trade-off

Following his appearance at International Energy Week earlier this year, Fintan Slye FEI, CEO of the National Energy System Operator (NESO), sets out his perspective on the challenges facing Great Britain’s energy system, and how to strike the right balance across the energy trilemma for consumers.

Electrification

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20/4/2026 Comment / Maxine Ghavi

Modern grids will be the foundation for future growth in Europe

Europe stands at a defining moment in its economic and energy transition. Electrification is no longer simply an environmental ambition: it is rapidly building the foundation of economic competitiveness, industrial resilience, national security and long-term prosperity with grids becoming the bottleneck. As Europe seeks to strengthen energy security, stimulate sustainable growth and affordability, and reduce emissions, accelerating electrification and investing in modern grid infrastructure must become urgent priorities, writes Maxine Ghavi, Executive Vice President and Head of Europe at Hitachi Energy.

Finance and investment

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17/7/2024 News

UK government’s week one energy initiatives

The UK’s new Labour government has launched a National Wealth Fund to unlock private investment in clean energy, and appointed Chris Stark to lead its Mission Control initiative that aims to accelerate the country’s move away from fossil fuels by 2030.

Energy policy

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16/7/2025 News

US DoE report warning that blackouts could increase by 100 times in 2030 gets mixed reactions

A new US Department of Energy (DoE) report claims that given projected load growth, retirements of power plants ‘increase the risk of outages by 100 times in 2030’. But environmental groups question the modelling.

Power generation

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28/5/2025 Comment / Rob Grimmond

How islands can escape diesel dependency

Connecting the often unstable and diesel generator-dominated power systems to larger power grids that contain a diversity of generation technologies offers island communities multiple benefits. So argues Rob Grimmond, Managing Director of contractor Offshore Marine Subsea International (OMSI).

Offshore wind

3/7/2024 News

European renewables held back by problems at the bidding and planning stages

Aspects of the bidding process in recent European offshore wind auctions, and in onshore UK planning arrangements, have been criticised in separate reports.

Grid management

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4/12/2024 Comment / Joanna Carter

The urgent need to expand the UK’s energy grid for net zero

Building a grid able to distribute net zero electricity in the UK by 2030 is possible, but will require enormous cooperation by the relevant stakeholders, argues Joanna Carter, Head of Electricity Connections at EDF Renewables.

Wind

26/3/2025 News

Further evidence published of Chinese dominance in global wind power markets, driven by domestic demand which remains patchy

Global wind turbine installations hit a record high in 2024, driven by rapid growth in mainland China. China is also dominating global wind turbine manufacturing, according to reports from BloombergNEF (BNEF) and Wood Mackenzie. Meanwhile, analysis from the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA) reveals a north-south divide in China’s clean energy progress.

Energy prices

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18/6/2025 Comment / Will Blyth,Callum MacIver

Zonal pricing for the GB electricity market, or fix transmission infrastructure first?

The introduction of zonal electricity pricing should come after the transmission grid has been upgraded to deal with a future zero carbon electricity system, argue Will Blyth, from Oxford Energy Associates and Callum MacIver, from Strathclyde University; both also work at the UK Energy Research Centre (UKERC).

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