• News Release

  China Belt & Road Initiative brings in 128 GW installed power capacity in 10 years

  • 20 11月 2023

  Chinese companies have made significant strides in the Belt & Road initiative's overseas power projects over the past decade. With an estimated investment value of around US$200 billion, over 300 projects have installed 128 GW of power, equivalent to 1.3 times Australia's installed capacity in 2022. However, challenges have emerged, leading to the cancellation or shelving of over 20% of projects to date.

• News Release

  COP28: Middle East could play a key role in decarbonising global economy

  • 23 11月 2023

  Large oil and gas reserves in the Middle East have resulted in especially low domestic energy prices and provide little incentive to transition to low carbon alternatives, according to Wood Mackenzie’s Middle East Energy Transition Outlook report.

• News Release

  China leads global renewables race with record-breaking 230 GW installations in 2023

  • 28 11月 2023

  Currently on target to reach a record-breaking 230 gigawatts (GW) of wind and solar installations this year, China leads the global renewables market. This is more than double the number of US and Europe installations combined.

• Event

  Solar & Energy Storage Summit 2026

  • 29 4月 2026

  Join Wood Mackenzie’s expert team of solar and energy storage research analysts and consultants in Denver from 29-30 April 2026 as they engage in powerful conversations with solar and energy storage developers, utilities, RTOs/ISOs, commercial offtakers, state and federal policymakers and regulators, financiers and the solar and storage supply chain.

• Horizons

  Top of the charts: five low-carbon tech trends worth tracking

  • 14 12月 2023

  In this December edition of Horizons, we chart five key trends on the road to a low-carbon world.

• News Release

  Competition increases in the residential solar-plus-storage battery market

  • 12 12月 2023

  As the residential solar-plus-storage market continues to grow, competition has increased amongst battery vendors, with new manufacturers gaining market share in recent years, according to a new analysis from Wood Mackenzie

• Opinion

  US grid seasonal outlook webinars: Key takeaways for NYISO and ISONE

  • 20 12月 2023

  What topics are top of mind for these major electricity grid operators?

• News Release

  US energy storage installations set new record in Q3 2023

  • 13 12月 2023

  The U.S. storage market hit a new high in Q3 2023, installing the most capacity in a quarter to date with 7,322 megawatt hours (MWh) becoming operational in the third quarter of 2023.

• News Release

  Offshore wind sector doubled down on tangible opportunities in 2023

  • 31 1月 2024

  Despite supply chain headwinds and price pressures, the global offshore wind sector saw significant growth in its mature pipeline, as late-stage pipeline mergers & acquisitions, turbine orders, and project financial investment decisions (FIDs) saw record activity in 2023. This has boosted the sector’s momentum into 2024.

• News Release

  Power demand growth remains strong in Asia Pacific

  • 31 1月 2024

  India, China and Southeast Asia will continue to be the three most important growth engines of power demand across the planet, says Alex Whitworth, Vice President, Head of Asia Pacific Power Research at Wood Mackenzie. With the Asia Pacific region seeing its share of global power demand surpass the 50% mark in 2023.

• Horizons

  Over the rainbow: why understanding full value chain carbon intensity is trumping the colour of hydrogen

  • 15 2月 2024

  Dive into the hydrogen rainbow & explore carbon emissions insights focusing on colour to project-level carbon intensity for companies crafting strategies.

• News Release

  Solar inflation reverses as renewable costs in Asia reach all-time low

  • 29 2月 2024

  Plummeting Utility PV solar costs beat coal power to emerge as the cheapest power source in the region

• Horizons

  Conflicts of interest: the cost of investing in the energy transition in a high interest-rate era

  • 18 4月 2024

  In this April edition of Horizons, we assess the cost of investing in the energy transition in a high-interest-rate era.

• Webinar

  Webinar | Unprecedented growth, but until when? Mapping the distributed solar-plus-storage boom in Europe

  • 30 5月 2024

  Watch on-demand as WoodMac’s distributed solar and energy storage experts in Europe present their latest regional outlooks for the residential and C&I solar PV and energy storage segments.

• Webinar

  Webinar | Cutting through hydrogen cost confusion

  • 06 6月 2024

  Join Wood Mackenzie as we explore the true costs of hydrogen production.

• Opinion

  Horizons Live: Call of duties

  • 23 4月 2024

  In this month's Horizons Live, our panel discuss how we assess the carbon intensity of LNG projects around the world and the effects of LNG emission tax scenarios.

• Opinion

  Horizons Live: Energy Super Basins

  • 11 8月 2022

  Watch on demand as we answer your questions about the global energy super basins and what they could mean for the oil, gas and renewables industries.

• News Release

  Waste-based biofuels could be the key to unlocking the energy transition

  • 18 8月 2022

  Waste-based biofuels could be a key driver of the energy transition transforming today’s limited supply of low carbon transportation fuels and creating a local, circular economy, according to a new report by Wood Mackenzie, a Verisk business (Nasdaq:VRSK).

• Content

  Bio-liquid gold: how biofuel circularity could unlock the energy transition

  • 18 8月 2022

  There’s little doubt that liquid biofuels should play a crucial role in the energy transition. Bio-based diesel and aviation fuels from plant-based feedstock could emit 80% less carbon than the crude oil-based products that dominate today’s global market. The question is how to make it happen.

• News Release

  CCUS planned capacity nearing 1 billion tonnes per annum

  • 26 8月 2022

  US Inflation Reduction Act bill set to boost CCUS uptake but more is needed to meet net zero goals by 2050

• Opinion

  Three lessons the renewables boom can learn from the shale bust

  • 21 7月 2021

  What could the renewable energy industry and its investors learn from shale's experience? A few interesting points of comparison are starting to emerge.

• Opinion

  Floating solar farms making waves across Asia-Pacific

  • 12 7月 2021

  This year, countries that rank in the top ten for FPV demand will hold 84% of global market share and this is forecast to increase to 86% by 2026. Of these ten countries, eight sit within Asia-Pacific. So, what is driving FPV growth in the region?

• Opinion

  Could China lead the global energy storage market by 2030?

  • 07 7月 2021

  China’s energy storage strategy could unlock its net-zero ambitions.

• Opinion

  China’s economic power surge

  • 07 7月 2021

  China's National Bureau of Statistics could never be accused of hyperbole. With its recent data release showing China achieved record Q1 economic growth of just over 18% year-on-year, the bureau announced that "the national economy made a good start" to 2021.

• Opinion

  Will India set a net zero target?

  • 24 6月 2021

  As COP26 approaches, pressure on India to commit to net zero is increasing. Global action on climate change is firmly at the top of the political agenda.

• Opinion

  What ‘vehicle-to-everything’ electric vehicle pilots mean for the grid

  • 23 6月 2021

  As rates of bus electrification continue to rise globally, fleet operators are looking to a novel solution to drive down costs and smooth the transition: vehicle-to-everything (V2X). What’s the potential of this technology, and what stands in the way of commercialisation?

• Opinion

  The rise of renewables and real-time trading decisions

  • 27 4月 2021

  The ongoing growth in wind and solar capacity in Europe is contributing to the emergence of an increasingly volatile and short-term spot market for electricity. How will trading dynamics evolve?

• 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.

• 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

  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.