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Global electricity demand is set to grow faster this year. How close are we to covering all that growth with renewables, so fossil power emissions stop rising?

Why has the energy transition kept outrunning the forecasts? Our new documentary series asks what that means for the road ahead.

Why sustainable mobility takes more than electric cars, with Debbie Hopkins, even as their share of new car sales grew nearly tenfold since ETS #96.

Russell Gold on the regulatory moats blocking the transmission needed to move renewable power across state lines, little changed since his 2019 interview.

When the jet stream slows and meanders, summer weather stalls. Tree rings show its excursions increasing sharply since the 1960s as the planet warms.

We review the highlights from the Statistical Review of World Energy 2026, offering the first complete look at global energy data for 2025.

Why is so much wind, solar and battery capacity stuck in connection queues across Europe’s distribution grids?

Is enhanced geothermal energy finally ready to be a significant commercial technology?

South Africa’s economic development now depends heavily on leaving behind its coal-fired legacy electricity system and making a “just transition” to renewables.

South Africa is embarking on a major reform of its electricity system to transition from a state-owned monopoly to a free market, and from coal to renewables.

A 350.org report adds up the cost of delaying the energy transition and the benefits of pursuing it, especially for oil and gas importing countries.

In 2025, renewables generated more electricity globally than fossil fuels for the first time in the modern era, causing power sector emissions to fall.

Can solar and batteries power the world cost-effectively? A new model says yes.

The damage to Persian Gulf oil and gas infrastructure and the closure of the Strait of Hormuz has thrown the world into a global energy crisis.

Why have China’s total CO2 emissions been slowly falling for two years even as it’s building more coal-fired power plants than ever?

Lord Adair Turner shares his global perspective on the state of the energy transition, as seen from the Energy Transitions Commission.

Can the energy transition in the US survive President Trump’s attacks on it?

What do aspiring energy transition advocates need to know to become effective changemakers in their communities?

As one of the most energy vulnerable countries on earth, Japan faces a difficult choice: join the petrostates, or the electrostates?

Global carbon emissions from the power sector may be close to peaking thanks to an accelerating energy transition.

Chris returns to Paris to interview co-lead Tim Gould about the new World Energy Outlook 2025 report, and to explore the futures it contemplates.

A history of South Africa’s energy transition in the power sector kicks off a new Energy Transition Show miniseries on the African country.

What is the role of distribution utilities in the energy transition?

What are the key elements to a successful energy transition project where you live?

We review some examples of social, political, and technological approaches to climate change mitigation that should give us reason to be optimistic.