Sea change: navigating the trillion-dollar offshore wind opportunity

• 18 5月 2022

Offshore wind is poised to become one of the key technologies powering the decarbonisation of the global economy. Read more.

Security alert: five lessons from the energy crisis

• 21 4月 2022

The crisis caused by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is the most significant shock to world energy markets since the 1970s. Read more.

A world first: shipping carbon exports for storage

• 26 6月 2025

A global CCUS milestone: Northern Lights begins shipping carbon for permanent storage, setting the stage for a new era of cross-border climate solutions.

2025 global power market outlook: divergent paths in a transforming energy landscape

• 02 7月 2025

Our latest research, powered by the Lens Power & Renewables offering, shows regional contrasts emerge as demand surges, storage booms and policy uncertainty reshapes investment flows

Staying power: how new energy realities risk extending coal's sunset

• 17 7月 2025

In this Horizons, we explore a new global high thermal coal demand case, examining the drivers of a higher outlook for coal and what this means for investors, technologies and global climate goals.

Webinar Replay

• 05 5月 2020

Brazil’s industrial gas demand had already started to decline in March, after coronavirus containment measures were put in place in Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro states. However, as lockdowns took effect across the country in the first two weeks of April, demand plunged. The oversupply has forced Petrobras to take action to mitigate the damage across the gas value chain and used its portfolio in an integrated and coordinated approach. • Covid-19 impact in the gas and power demand, and crisis management implemented by Petrobras • New power dispatch and gas market trends post Covid-19 • What to expect for LNG, Bolivian and domestic prices in the short term? • Lessons learned to gas marketing and infrastructure development players.

Steadying the grid: why grid forming BESS technology is crucial to future renewable energy supply

• 04 7月 2025

Grid forming BESS technology emerges as essential grid stabiliser as renewable energy capacity surges toward US $5 trillion in global additions over the next decade

Trading cases: tariff scenarios for taxing times

• 21 5月 2025

In this edition of Horizons, we explore how the Trump administration's 'Liberation Day' tariffs marked a pivotal moment in global trade, potentially reversing the effects of China's 2001 WTO entry and accelerating deglobalization trends.

Lens platform: Lens Power & Renewables Americas

• 21 2月 2025

Make sense of the complex regional and sub-regional market structures with integrated analyses connecting power markets with commodity markets.

In the modern era of US energy dominance, can domestic manufacturing for solar and BESS play a role?

• 18 7月 2025

The intersection of energy independence, job creation and renewable growth presents an enormous manufacturing opportunity for investors and financial companies

South Korea Hydrogen, Power and Renewables Briefing

• 24 7月 2025

South Korea Hydrogen, Power and Renewables Briefing

Energy policy shifts: navigating the One Big Beautiful Bill

• 16 7月 2025

Our recent webinar explored how the OBBBA is reshaping renewable energy, emerging technologies and oil & gas markets

Covid-19 lockdown hits global solar PV market

• 09 4月 2020

The coronavirus pandemic will have a significant impact on the global solar PV market. Construction and development is slowing as countries around the world enforce unprecedented lockdowns. As the world economy faces severe economic disruption, Wood Mackenzie has downgraded its forecast for 2020 installations from 129.5 gigawatts (GW) to 106.4 GW, a reduction of 18%.

The art of never letting a crisis go to waste

• 15 7月 2020

I asked our experts what they believe governments and companies should be doing to ensure that they emerge stronger from the crisis.

Why US solar tariffs (almost) worked – and why they don’t now

• 20 7月 2020

Despite early success, Section 201 solar tariffs on imported cells and modules could now limit market growth.

Natural gas: friend or foe in Europe’s 2030 emissions target?

• 24 7月 2020

Green hydrogen has grabbed the limelight in the drive to decarbonise. But is there a role for natural gas in a post-coronavirus Europe?

Covid-19 reveals critical flaw in European power systems – lack of flexibility

• 23 7月 2020

Rory McCarthy, Principal Analyst, and Victor Laurent, Senior Product Manager for Power at Wood Mackenzie Genscape, look at the flexibility challenges facing European power markets, which have been laid bare by Covid-19

US residential solar finance will falter in 2020

• 14 8月 2020

US residential solar finance is taking a hit in 2020 due to Covid-19 impacts.

US utilities are still choosing solar

• 05 8月 2020

Utility-scale solar PV is likely to remain the most economically competitive electricity source in the US

The disruptive potential of US offshore wind

• 31 7月 2020

Offshore wind in the US has lagged behind Europe, where in some countries projects are now economically viable without special subsidies. The US industry faces a different set of challenges, but state policies and the federal Investment Tax Credit have created the conditions for what could be a boom over the next few years.

Why the majors, electric utilities, and private equity firms all want to own US microgrids

• 03 9月 2020

The US microgrid market is growing, with a record 546 small power grids installed during 2019. Projects below 5MW are increasingly attractive to a wide range of investors.

Can biomethane decarbonise Europe’s gas market?

• 23 9月 2020

Europe is the leading global producer of the net-zero carbon renewable gas, but continued growth depends on policy support

US utilities are leaving non-wires alternatives on the table

• 27 8月 2020

Proposed non-wires alternatives are still often deemed either more expensive or less reliable than the conventional reinforcement option

Commercial solar could be huge – what’s holding it back?

• 17 8月 2020

Today there are only 15 commercial wind leases in the , and a number of them are held by the same group of companies

Google sets a new challenge for renewable energy

• 18 9月 2020

Tech companies have been matching their electricity use with purchases of wind and solar power. Now Google wants to go further and run its operations on renewables 24/7

Could coal and renewables put the squeeze on gas?

• 16 9月 2020

Current low gas prices are supporting demand growth in the sector and encouraging pro-gas policies and infrastructure developments

Time for Asia’s Sputnik moment on decarbonisation

• 22 9月 2020

Halting the pandemic and rebuilding economies are the most urgent goals for the immediate future. Wood Mackenzie estimates that almost US$20 trillion – equivalent to a quarter of global GDP – will go towards stimulus packages, public health spending and delivering a vaccine over the next 12-18 months alone.

CongestionIQ

Leverage our quantifiable predictions about congestion events across the US power grid to develop and strengthen congestion trading and hedging strategies.

WindcastIQ

Anticipate wind-related congestion and power price volatility, with accurate wind power generation forecasts and expert market analysis.

Net zero North Sea: can hydrogen live up to its hype?

• 20 10月 2020

The UK has an opportunity to be at the forefront of the global hydrogen economy – but it calls for rapid technology scale-up.