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  Key energy takeaways from Canada’s 2025 election

  • 01 5月 2025

  Newly elected Prime Minister of Canada, Mark Carney, has made energy a key initiative of the new government, with goals to expand both conventional and clean energy, but decoupling energy flows away from the US may prove to be a challenge, according to Wood Mackenzie.

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  Australia at risk of losing its energy edge as gas investment stalls, report finds

  • 26 5月 2025

  Australia is losing its competitive edge in attracting investment in natural gas exploration and production, threatening the nation’s energy security, economic growth and emissions reduction targets, a new report by Wood Mackenzie has found. The ‘Australia’s Natural Gas Investment Competitiveness...

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  Tariffs to increase costs and slow down development for US power industry

  • 02 6月 2025

  Recent tariff policies in the US are set to increase the cost of power generation technologies, with energy storage seeing the biggest hike due to its dependence on Chinese imports, according to a recent report from Wood Mackenzie.

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  European gas storage plans for 2023 still stand despite cold snap

  • 14 12月 2022

  Colder temperatures across Europe have increased month-on-month heating demand by 20% in December, but behavioural change in households and services means the amount of gas used in these sectors is 16% lower than previous average consumption patterns for similar temperatures says Wood Mackenzie, a Verisk business (Nasdaq:VRSK).

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  A better future for energy emerging from crisis

  • 07 12月 2022

  Wood Mackenzie report offers five key developments for the energy sector over the next 12 months

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  US grid-scale energy storage market beats Q2 record

  • 14 9月 2022

  The U.S. energy storage market set a new record in the second quarter of 2022, with grid-scale installations totalling 2,608 megawatt hours (MWh) – the highest installed capacity for any Q2 on record, according to a new report released today.

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  New US solar contract capacity sees record growth in Q2

  • 28 9月 2022

  Boosted by recent legislation, the U.S. recorded 10 gigawatts (GW) of new utility-scale solar capacity contracts in Q2, up 201% from Q1 for the largest quarter-over-quarter growth on record according to new analysis from Wood Mackenzie, a Verisk business (Nasdaq: VRSK).

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  Net zero scenario to require 9.7 Mt of new copper supply over next decade

  • 20 10月 2022

  How much copper is needed to successfully meet the climate targets set out by the Paris Agreement?

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  Few oil and gas companies commit to Scope 3 net zero emissions as significant challenges remain

  • 28 10月 2022

  Scope 3 emissions account for 80-to-95% of total carbon emissions from oil and gas companies. But only a small number of these firms have set Scope 3 net zero ambitions, according to a recent report from Wood Mackenzie.

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  Verisk Announces the Sale of Wood Mackenzie to Veritas Capital

  • 31 10月 2022

  Verisk (Nasdaq: VRSK), a leading global data analytics provider, and Veritas Capital (“Veritas”), a leading investor at the intersection of technology and government, today announced the signing of a definitive agreement under which an affiliate of Veritas has agreed to acquire Verisk’s Energy business, Wood Mackenzie, for $3.1 billion in cash consideration payable at closing plus future additional contingent consideration of up to $200 million.

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  Bulks most affected by Russia-Ukraine conflict; rising power prices a key concern

  • 15 2月 2022

  Trade dislocations due to sanctions, high power prices and disruption to production facilities in the conflict zone are three major threats to the metals and mining industry as result of escalating conflict between Russia and Ukraine, says Wood Mackenzie.

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  Redesign biggest opportunity to clean up plastic packaging as sector GHG emissions predicted to rise 75% by 2040

  • 21 2月 2022

  Plastic pollution caught and maintained the world’s attention in the mid-2010s as images of marine environments ravaged by deposits of disposed plastic led global governments and corporations to commit to improving the circular plastic economy.

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  Wood Mackenzie brings light to homes in Puerto Rico

  • 08 3月 2022

  A team of three analysts from global energy consultancy Wood Mackenzie, a Verisk business (Nasdaq: VRSK), are in Puerto Rico this week helping install solar panels on homes as part of a new initiative with charity Let’s Share the Sun Foundation.

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  World must double-down on plans to achieve net zero by 2050

  • 23 3月 2022

  Over the last year, strong demand recovery and a lack of investment in supply has caused prices to rise across sectors. Energy security and geopolitical tensions have added unprecedented uncertainty to markets across the globe. On top of that, countries and corporations still bear the massive challenge of limiting global warming to 1.5 ˚C.

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  Global lithium-ion battery capacity to rise five-fold by 2030

  • 22 3月 2022

  Global cumulative lithium-ion battery capacity could rise over five-fold to 5,500 gigawatt-hour (GWh) between 2021 and 2030, says Wood Mackenzie.

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  Europe can weather halt in Russian gas supplies

  • 18 3月 2022

  European gas prices remain volatile amid the risks of disruptions of Russian piped imports. As additional sanctions against Russia are under discussion, a complete halt of Russian piped imports into the EU remains a risk. But Europe is in a better position to cope without Russian piped gas now than it was a few months ago, analysts from Wood Mackenzie, a Verisk business (Nasdaq: VRSK) said.

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  Utility evolution in Africa to reshape global electricity demand

  • 17 3月 2022

  Sub-Saharan Africa offers an alternative vision of how the energy transition will change power generation, according to research released today by global energy consultancy Wood Mackenzie, a Verisk business (Nasdaq: VRSK).

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  About 650,000 barrels per day of Russian crude oil to be ‘swapped’

  • 05 4月 2022

  About 650,000 barrels per day (b/d) of Russian crude oil are to be relocated from advanced economies, and the solution could be ‘crude swapping’, says Wood Mackenzie.

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  Russia-Ukraine war could slow global economic growth to 2.5% this year

  • 12 4月 2022

  Global economic growth could slow to 2.5% year-on-year in 2022 and 0.7% in 2023 due to the Russia-Ukraine war, says Wood Mackenzie.

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  Domestic UK oil & gas can reduce reliance on energy imports

  • 07 4月 2022

  High commodity prices and Russia's invasion of Ukraine have called into question the UK’s reliance on energy imports. In response, the UK government is set to unveil a new ‘energy security strategy’.

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  How the energy transition can reduce the risk of future shocks

  • 21 4月 2022

  Five key lessons from today's energy crisis on how to manage the shift to lower-carbon sources while strengthening energy security

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  Market searches for new Henry Hub ceiling price as supply/demand response remains unusually muted

  • 22 4月 2022

  The recent run up in natural gas prices - hitting its highest at Henry Hub since 2008 - is a result of more muted market balancing mechanisms than in the past, say analysts from Wood Mackenzie, a Verisk business (Nasdaq: VRSK).

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  Look beyond bid price and lease fees to win in trillion-dollar offshore wind sector

  • 18 5月 2022

  Cumulative global capex spend in the offshore wind sector is expected to hit US$1 trillion by 2031, according to a new report by Wood Mackenzie. However, investors will no longer only be competing on price alone.

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  UK government swoops on North Sea windfall profits

  • 27 5月 2022

  Wood Mackenzie’s research indicates that UK North Sea oil and gas producers are making more profits than ever before, in an era where the industry is in progressive decline.

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  U.S. Solar Industry Sees Worst Quarter Since 2020

  • 07 6月 2022

  The U.S. solar industry had its lowest quarter of installations since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, according to the U.S. Solar Market Insight report released today by the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) and Wood Mackenzie, a Verisk business. In Q1 2022, price increases and supply chain constraints continued to suppress the solar market as the industry installed 24% less solar capacity than Q1 2021.

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  US commercial solar project acquisitions see dramatic price variation over 2018-2021

  • 08 6月 2022

  US commercial solar project acquisitions continue to attract investor attention as interest in ESG investing grows. Today’s buyers and sellers of commercial solar projects are contending with the opposing dynamics of higher interest rates and increasing power prices. These findings come from the Commercial Solar PV Project Acquisition Trends report released today by Wood Mackenzie, a Verisk business (Nasdaq: VRSK), and Open Energy Group (OEG), a technology-driven marketplace for renewable energy asset sales and project finance.

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  Recycling alone can ease raw materials supply pressure but cannot meet demand

  • 13 6月 2022

  While recycling can relieve some pressure from the supply deficit of battery raw materials, it will not be able to meet demand, says Wood Mackenzie.

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  Battery storage profitability looking up in Australia, driven by power price volatility

  • 09 12月 2024

  Investments in battery storage within Australia's National Electricity Market (NEM) are increasingly profitability due to higher power price volatility and changing market dynamics.

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  Complete ban on Russian commodity exports accelerate LNG growth and energy transition

  • 16 6月 2022

  War in Ukraine is transforming the outlook for the supply, demand and price of hydrocarbons and the pace and cost of the energy transition. While the precise timing and implementation of future bans on Russian commodity imports are difficult to predict, a rewriting of energy trade flows is now underway.

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  Russia supply reduction via Nord Stream poses risks to gas storage refill in Europe

  • 17 6月 2022

  Russia reducing flows via Nord Stream, outages at Freeport and French nuclear downgrades have sent the European natural gas market into an upward spiral with more volatility still to come. And while summer consumption will be covered, analysts at Wood Mackenzie, a Verisk business (Nasdaq: VRSK) say storage refill is at risk unless additional demand and supply measures are taken.