• News Release

  Drought puts pressure on Brazil’s power sector

  • 08 9月 2021

  The severe drought in Brazil will contribute to an extremely tight power balance in the country, new research from global natural resources consultancy Wood Mackenzie, a Verisk business (Nasdaq: VRSK), shows.

• News Release

  US solar prices on the rise

  • 14 9月 2021

  Despite the addition of 5.7 gigawatts (GWdc) of solar capacity in Q2 2021, supply chain constraints are leading to price increases across every solar market segment, according to the U.S. Solar Market Insight report released today by the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) and Wood Mackenzie, a Verisk business (Nasdaq: VRSK).

• News Release

  Global energy storage set to triple in 2021

  • 07 10月 2021

  New research from global natural resources consultancy Wood Mackenzie, a Verisk business (Nasdaq: VRSK), shows annual global storage deployments will nearly triple year-on-year, reaching 12 GW/28 GWh in 2021. Across the world, economic recovery is top of mind for politicians, with renewable energy integration taking centre stage. Despite disruptions from the Covid-19 pandemic, Wood Mackenzie’s Global Energy Storage Outlook, released today, forecasts nearly 1 TWh of total demand from 2021-2030.

• Webinar

  Wood Mackenzie Focus:US Market Opportunity for Flex Services and Impacts of FERC 2222

  • 28 10月 2021

  WoodMac estimates by 2025, DER capacity added since 2016 will be comparable to renewables on the bulk generation side. Passed in 2020, FERC Order 2222 will enable DERs to participate alongside traditional resources in the regional organized wholesale markets through aggregation. This mandate is creating the conditions for DERs to create additional revenue streams in wholesale markets and consequently improve the economics for distributed generation and energy storage. But how can DER aggregation and orchestration technologies like virtual power plants (VPPs) help build DER business models? And what are the ways in which this value stacking opportunity can be broken down? Wood Mackenzie’s Global Head of Grid Edge Ben Hertz-Shargel will join IBM and some of the leading utilities and distributed generation companies in the United States to examine the different impacts of FERC 2222, shedding light on these fundamental questions: • What is the expected size of the DER in America? How will FERC 2222 affect the DER business models? And what are the key unknowns? • What is the market today for storage-based virtual power plants? And how will it evolve in a FERC 2222-impacted world? • How will EVs affect bulk power and distribution systems?

• News Release

  China could ease restrictions on Australian coal and increase supply to alleviate power crunch

  • 08 10月 2021

  Wood Mackenzie believes that Chinese authorities could allow customs clearance of stranded Australian thermal coal. In addition, the local governments in Yulin region of Shaanxi province and Inner Mongolia have announced yesterday that they will be increasing coal supply to meet demand.

• Webinar

  Webinar | Europe distributed solar and storage: How significant is the role of households and C&I players in the energy transition?

  • 25 11月 2021

  Join Wood Mackenzie on Thursday, 25th November at 10:00 am GMT where we'll use financial modelling to illuminate attractive business cases for residential solar-plus-storage systems, identify key European markets, and map future development trajectories.

• Opinion

  This is not a drill: key lessons from GB power price spikes

  • 27 10月 2021

  The GB power market has been hit hard by a painful combination of high commodity prices, pre-winter levels of availability and low wind output.

• Comment

  Low-carbon fuels could play a role in Asia Pacific’s decarbonisation efforts

  • 25 10月 2021

  Minister for Trade and Industry Gan Kim Yong said today that Singapore plans to import around 30 per cent of its electricity from low-carbon sources by 2035.

• Opinion

  Horizons Live: The blue-green planet

  • 03 11月 2021

  Our October Horizons Live sees our experts debate and answer your questions about hydrogen's role in the future of the global energy trade.

• Webinar

  Webinar | Resilience, Cost Savings, Sustainability – Can you really achieve all 3?

  • 01 12月 2021

  Microgrids are touted as being able to provide multiple value streams -- resilience, cost savings, and reduced carbon emissions -- but at times these values are in contention with one another. Can microgrid projects really optimize on all three at once?

• Webinar

  Webinar | Accounting for Extreme Weather for Solar Development Finance

  • 18 5月 2021

  Join us for a webinar discussing a deeper understanding of extreme weather for solar development as it relates to finance risk.

• News Release

  Wood Mackenzie appoints Ben Hertz-Shargel as Global Head of Grid Edge

  • 05 5月 2021

  Wood Mackenzie, a leading provider of commercial intelligence for the world's natural resources sector, has appointed Ben Hertz-Shargel to the role of Global Head of Grid Edge

• Comment

  Australia releases Budget 2021

  • 12 5月 2021

  Wood Mackenzie experts comment on the recently announced Australia Budget 2021.

• News Release

  Americas to lead global energy storage market by 2025

  • 20 4月 2021

  According to new research from Wood Mackenzie, the Americas region will overtake Asia Pacific by 2025 to lead the global storage market, with a total capacity of 371 GWh in 2030. Most of this growth will come from the US.

• News Release

  UK accelerates plan to cut carbon emissions

  • 20 4月 2021

  Today's announcement outlining the UK's plan to set a legally binding 78% greenhouse gas emissions reduction target (on 1990 levels) through its Sixth Carbon Budget is another significant milestone on the road to its goal of net-zero emissions by 2050.

• News Release

  Carbon neutrality goal forces Chinese aluminium smelters away from captive coal power

  • 19 4月 2021

  China’s march towards carbon neutrality is forcing its aluminium smelters away from using captive coal-fired power, says Wood Mackenzie.

• News Release

  Australia’s low-carbon hydrogen trade could be worth up to US$90 billion in 2050

  • 17 6月 2021

  Low-carbon hydrogen could become a US$50 billion to US$90 billion export industry for Australia in 2050, says Wood Mackenzie.

• News Release

  Wood Mackenzie expands energy transition expertise with acquisition of Roskill

  • 18 6月 2021

  Wood Mackenzie is pleased to announce its acquisition of Roskill, a privately-owned company and leader in metals and materials supply chain intelligence.

• News Release

  Asia Pacific renewables generation investments could hit US$1.3 trillion by 2030

  • 22 6月 2021

  Asia Pacific renewables (wind and solar) generation investments could double to US$1.3 trillion over the current decade to 2030 compared to the previous decade (2011 – 2020), says Wood Mackenzie, a Verisk business (Nasdaq:VRSK).

• Webinar

  Webinar | Benefits & Challenges of Large-Format PV Modules and Their Impact on Solar Tracker Design from LONGi

  • 22 7月 2021

  This webinar explored how high-power-output solar modules will affect partner technologies such as tracker systems for overall project performance.

• Webinar

  Nordic power markets to 2050: an energy transition in low-carbon markets

  • 14 7月 2021

  Join our European Power team to hear about the work we’ve been doing to add Nordic power market coverage to the European Power Service and get a first look at our new insight.

• News Release

  Next commodities supercycle will be driven by global energy transition

  • 15 7月 2021

  Another commodities supercycle is on the horizon, but it will be different from any that have come before. Fossil fuels won’t be in the vanguard and the winners will be the industrial metals needed to electrify society - cobalt, lithium, copper, nickel, and aluminium.

• News Release

  New global wind power life cycle emissions to reach 55 Mt CO2 from 2020-2050

  • 08 7月 2021

  According to Wood Mackenzie, a Verisk business (Nasdaq:VRSK), global wind power life cycle emissions will reach 55 million tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent (Mt CO2) from 2020 to 2050, a result of wind power capacity expanding five-fold to 3.7 terawatts from 2020 to 2050. This is roughly equivalent to four times the US’s total power capacity in 2020.

• Comment

  What would an EU carbon border adjustment mechanism mean?

  • 14 7月 2021

  The EU Commission proposed a carbon border adjustment mechanism (CBAM) as part of today’s “Fit for 55” package. James Whiteside, global head of multi-commodity research at Wood Mackenzie, said: “As the first mechanism of its kind, the CBAM is being designed in consultation with industry to avoid unintended consequences. “A CBAM that does not cover a substantial portion of the production chain will encourage carbon leakage - pushing emissions beyond the borders of the EU or shifting competition between EU and non-EU producers to the next stage of the value chain.”

• News Release

  EU’s ‘Fit for 55’ lays out bloc’s green blueprint

  • 14 7月 2021

  Europe is at the forefront of the shift to net zero, both in ambition, but also in terms of how to make rapid and deep decarbonisation a reality. The world needs to reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions as quickly as possible. Not doing so means we will need to turn to expensive and unproven technologies to withdraw CO2 from the atmosphere later this century.

• Comment

  Slower H2 demand across most commodities in China

  • 28 7月 2021

  Demand across most commodities in China is expected to slow down in the second half of 2021, according to Wood Mackenzie’s new monthly China Economic Focus report.

• Comment

  China’s CATL launches sodium-ion battery

  • 29 7月 2021

  China’s CATL unveiled its newly-developed sodium-ion battery at a launch event today.

• Comment

  Japan’s new 2030 energy mix unveils radical plans to transform the energy system

  • 27 7月 2021

  Last week, Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) released a draft of its upcoming 6th Strategic Energy Plan which included major changes to the FY2030 power generation mix targets.

• News Release

  Solar energy to boost demand for base metals

  • 09 8月 2021

  According to a new report from Wood Mackenzie, a Verisk business (Nasdaq:VRSK), solar power will have a significant impact on demand for aluminium, copper, and zinc, with the usage of all three metals in the sector set to double by 2040.

• News Release

  Asia Pacific FTM storage costs to decline 30% by 2025

  • 19 1月 2021

  All-in front-of-the-meter (FTM) battery storage system costs in Asia Pacific markets could decline by more than 30% by 2025, says Wood Mackenzie.