• Horizons

  Adding fire to e-fuels: are synthetic fuels the key to unlocking growth in hydrogen?

  • 11 6月 2024

  Identifying pathways from legacy fuels into low-carbon alternatives is a perennial challenge for incumbent energy players. Finding the optimal blend of competitive hydrogen costs, CO2 sourcing and policy support will be key.

• Horizons

  The nuclear option: making new nuclear power viable in the energy transition

  • 18 5月 2023

  The future will run on electricity, yet the world is struggling to decarbonise its power supply and meet demand. The 2022 energy crisis has put energy security and reliability front of mind for governments and underscored the need to press ahead with the development of alternative energy sources.

• Horizons

  Playing by new rules: how the CBAM will change the world

  • 21 9月 2023

  The CBAM will reshuffle global trade – who will be the winners and losers?

• Opinion

  What’s next for copper?

  • 06 5月 2025

  The impact of changing supply chains was a key theme for the red metal at our recent Future Facing Commodities Forum

• Horizons

  Waste to wealth: unlocking circular value chains​

  • 15 7月 2024

  The circular economy is a critical strategy for delivering a lower-emission, more sustainable economy. This Horizons highlights the paradigmatic shift that is required to make progress, and highlights three case studies that serve as examples of how we can initiate change.​

• Opinion

  Oil and refined products in 2025: a commodity trader’s guide

  • 14 4月 2025

  In an energy hungry world beset by growing trade tensions and shifting energy policy, volatility creates opportunity for commodity traders who can stay one step ahead of market shifts. So, what are the opportunities and challenges set to shape crude and refined product markets as 2025 progresses?

• Content

  Champagne supercycle: taking the fizz out of the commodity boom

  • 15 7月 2021

  Another supercycle is coming. Anticipation of future demand growth has generated palpable excitement, driving commodity prices to post-pandemic highs.

• Content

  Commit and collaborate: squaring the carbon circle for oil & gas

  • 19 8月 2021

  The commodity price upcycle provides a golden opportunity to accelerate emissions reduction. Read more....

• Horizons

  Fuelling change: how oil and mining companies can finance the energy transition

  • 20 4月 2023

  How oil and mining companies can finance the energy transition

• Content

  Red metal, green demand: copper’s critical role in achieving net zero

  • 20 10月 2022

  The road to zero carbon will see an extraordinary build-out of low-carbon electric vehicles (EVs) and renewable power-generating capacity. And as the world reduces its dependence on hydrocarbons, metals will be a linchpin of a zero-carbon economy.

• Content

  Energy super basins: where the renewable, CCS and upstream stars align

  • 21 7月 2022

  The world’s need for sustainable energy is set to change the geography of the oil and gas industry, increasingly entwining it with renewables. The upstream industry of the 2030s and beyond, therefore, must focus on where its synergies with new energies are strongest.

• Content

  Pedal to the metal: iron and steel’s US$1.4 trillion shot at decarbonisation

  • 15 9月 2022

  The industrialised world cannot function without steel. It is essential to everything from the buildings we live in to the ways we get around. Wood Mackenzie estimates that meeting global steel demand will require 2.2 billion tonnes of production by 2050.

• Content

  Avoiding pand-ammonia: how to kick-start a global low-carbon ammonia industry

  • 17 11月 2022

  Ammonia shapes modern life in every way imaginable. As the basis for all nitrogen fertilisers, industrial ammonia has truly changed the world.

• Content

  No pain, no gain – the economic consequences of accelerating the energy transition

  • 18 1月 2022

  Wood Mackenzie’s base-case Energy Transition Outlook sees global temperatures 2.5-2.7 °C above pre-industrial levels by mid-century. To limit this warming to 1.5 °C, in line with the Paris Agreement, the energy transition must accelerate. The world has the means, motive and opportunity to do so.

• Content

  Plastic surgery: reshaping the profile of the plastics industry

  • 05 11月 2021

  To explore the effects of efforts to create a more sustainable plastics value chain, we have run a scenario founded on our base-case industry outlook. Read more.

• Content

  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.

• Content

  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.

• Partnered Content

  US gas goes global

  • 09 6月 2025

  Our new partnered report with CME Group explores why U.S. LNG pricing matters globally – and what it means for commodity traders around the world.

• The Edge

  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.

• Opinion

  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

• Horizons

  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.

• Opinion

  Optimism amidst despair: key takeaways from the 17th Lithium Supply and Battery Raw Materials Conference

  • 04 7月 2025

  Industry maintains long-term confidence despite oversupply challenges, but Western players risk falling behind China's strategic investments.

• Opinion

  What’s next for copper?

  • 06 5月 2025

  The impact of changing supply chains was a key theme for the red metal at our recent Future Facing Commodities Forum

• News Release

  Global PV inverter shipments grew by 10% in 2024 to 589 GWac

  • 10 7月 2025

  Global PV inverter shipments grew by 10% to 589 gigawatts alternating current (GWac) in 2024. Asia Pacific, led by China, accounted for nearly all global growth, while the US and Europe declined.

• Event

  Wood Mackenzie at IMAGE 2025

  • 25 8月 2025

  Wood Mackenzie is hosting a Woodmac Strategic Panel on Global Upstream for the 2030’s at IMAGE 2025

• Opinion

  Where next for metals markets in 2025?

  • 07 5月 2025

  Overcapacity, struggling prices, uncertain monetary settings, peaking demand growth and supply security concerns were all on the agenda at our recent Future Facing Commodities event

• The Edge

  Upstream’s mounting challenge to deliver future oil supply

  • 10 7月 2025

  The industry needs to look beyond short-term price volatility.

• Horizons

  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.

• Platform

  Lens platform: Lens Emissions

  • 27 9月 2024

  Decision intelligence to simplify the complexity of emissions risk management. Available with Lens Upstream solutions.

• News Release

  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%.