• Opinion

  The biggest takeaways from our PJM and ERCOT spring outlook webinars

  • 28 3月 2024

  How these major US electricity grid operators are using new policies, planning and technologies to improve their services

• Opinion

  How the MENA region and its NOCs are diversifying into new energies

  • 05 4月 2024

  The Middle East is faced with a significant challenge – building a new energy economy means accelerating nascent diversification efforts and pushing towards ambitious net zero goals.

• Opinion

  Four key issues GB electricity market reform must address

  • 09 4月 2024

  The Review of Electricity Market Arrangements focuses on four key challenges in its second stage of consultation

• Opinion

  Distributed solar and storage: a beacon of security and hope

  • 11 4月 2024

  Wood Mackenzie continues to support improved energy access and energy security in Puerto Rico through our partnership with Let’s Share the Sun.

• Partnered Content

  Taking on climate change: Navigating a path forward in the IRA era

  • 22 4月 2024

  The Inflation Reduction Act will spur investment and progress in clean energy over the next 10 years. In our new partnered report with CohnReznick we examine the tax incentives and opportunities available because of the IRA and what this means for the energy landscape.

• Opinion

  How to address risk from the intermittency of renewable energy in power markets

  • 23 4月 2024

  Understanding the implications of the intermittency of renewable energy is essential for energy market participants

• Opinion

  Battery storage in Asia Pacific: 5 things to know

  • 25 4月 2024

  A deep-dive into the supply-demand, cost, supply chain, tech and policy trends for battery storage

• Opinion

  Energy view to 2035 in five charts

  • 15 6月 2017

  We've distilled our outlook into five charts that examine global supply by fuel, demand by country and emerging markets in Asia Pacific.

• Opinion

  What’s behind the energy storage boom?

  • 06 4月 2020

  We answer frequently asked questions about the fast-growing energy storage market

• Opinion

  5 factors that will determine the economic impact of coronavirus

  • 12 3月 2020

  Principal Economist Peter Martin’s 2000-word report “Global spread of Covid-19 derailing the world economy” examines the impact of coronavirus on the world economy. Get the highlights of Peter’s research here or purchase the full report for a more in-depth discussion.

• Opinion

  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.

• Opinion

  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.

• Featured

  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

• Opinion

  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?

• Opinion

  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

• Opinion

  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.

• Opinion

  The trillion-dollar question: how will Asia Pacific meet power supply needs in the next decade?

  • 28 9月 2020

  The Asia Pacific power generation market will attract US$1.5 trillion of investment in the next 10 years. So what are the opportunities in the world’s fastest-growing power market?

• Opinion

  Radical reform and China’s pathway to carbon neutrality

  • 30 9月 2020

  Despite being both the world’s largest energy market and largest carbon emitter, China’s position has long been that responsibility to reduce global emissions rests with rich countries: you broke it, you fix it.

• Opinion

  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.

• Opinion

  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.

• Opinion

  Beyond inexpensive supply in North American power markets

  • 31 3月 2020

  The margin of error for meeting project returns has narrowed substantially in recent years. Competition for offtake contracts in wind and solar that secure the bottom for investors has become intense. This means that developers are increasingly taking more power delivery risks in the near-term to win contracts, while backloading their own returns into the distant future. 

• Opinion

  Is China embarking on a major expansion of coal-fired power generation?

  • 31 3月 2020

  As energy companies worldwide grapple with the economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic, long-term planning continues. Ahead of the release of the 14th five-year plan early next year, recent announcements from several key players in the country’s power sector indicate China is considering a major investment spree in coal-fired generation.

• Opinion

  Coronavirus: tracking the impact on European gas, power and chemicals

  • 22 4月 2020

  The coronavirus outbreak is having a seismic effect. How is it affecting gas, power and chemicals markets?

• Opinion

  Is green hydrogen metallurgical coal’s kryptonite?

  • 11 5月 2020

  With all carbon-intensive industries firmly in the crosshairs of international emission reduction targets, the steel industry has no choice but to investigate low or zero-carbon emission technologies. Enter green steel and green hydrogen – will this duo be the end for metallurgical coal and carbon-based steel production?

• Opinion

  The outlook for renewable generation across Asia Pacific remains bright

  • 19 5月 2020

  Pre-pandemic, APAC would account for 67% of global power demand growth through to 2040. Such growth would require over US$1 trillion in new investment. Will the coronavirus pandemic derail this?

• Opinion

  Making sense of the TCFD recommendations

  • 20 5月 2020

  The Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures released recommendations years ago but getting to grips with the finer details remains a challenge for companies.

• Opinion

  Global wind turbine market: state of play

  • 14 4月 2021

  After a record-breaking year, what are the key wind turbine market trends – and which OEMs have secured the most market share?

• Opinion

  Electric vans on the brink of a commercial breakthrough

  • 16 4月 2021

  There is a dispute over whether the US Postal Service should buy EVs, but the private sector is pressing ahead with orders.

• Opinion

  Tracking the trajectory of the global energy storage market

  • 21 4月 2021

  Global energy storage deployment surged 62% in 2020, and we expect the global market to grow 27-fold by 2030. But where will growth come from? What technologies will triumph? And what will it all cost?

• Opinion

  Could Australia’s battery storage pipeline bottleneck thwart energy transition progress?

  • 26 4月 2021

  Australia has one of the lowest renewables cost premiums over fossil fuel in the APAC region and renewables (solar and wind) account for a fifth of total power generation. However, this has caused transmission constraints and put pressure on grid reliability. Australian utilities and regulators are looking to battery storage as a solution.