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  Global wind power installations hit record levels in 2020

  • 29 3月 2021

  114 GW of new wind capacity was added globally in 2020, representing an 82% increase year-over-year (YoY), according to new research from Wood Mackenzie. This is the highest global annual installation total on record.

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  Wood Mackenzie’s new multi-factor analysis pin-points advantaged reservoirs

  • 30 3月 2021

  Granular subsurface data is key to understanding advantaged resources

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  Asia’s ambitious biofuels plans thwarted by supply constraints and food security concerns

  • 31 3月 2021

  Asia’s ambitious biofuels blending targets will be a challenge to meet due to supply constraints and food security concerns, says Wood Mackenzie.

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  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.

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  Will higher oil prices spell trouble for upstream discipline?

  • 19 4月 2021

  In its rebound from the 2020 downturn, Brent flirted with US$70 per barrel. Higher prices in 2021 mean higher cash flow for producers, perhaps even record-setting highs. Have the good times returned? Global natural resources consultancy Wood Mackenzie believes operators need to be cautious.

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  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.

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  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.

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  OPEC+ maintains production plan

  • 27 4月 2021

  OPEC+ is, as expected, holding firm to its decision to increase supply, gradually and carefully, over the coming months.

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  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

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  Wood Mackenzie boosts its energy transition data analytics by adding Vestas as a Lens Power® Development Partner

  • 12 5月 2021

  Lens® decision intelligence platform pinpoints strategic investment opportunities in utility-scale renewable generation

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  Europe emerges as global LNG price-setter

  • 27 5月 2021

  Global liquefied natural gas (LNG) markets were set to tighten over the next five years, driven by a slowdown in global LNG supply growth. But Europe’s market dynamics are turbo-charging the price recovery, with TTF currently trading close to US$9 per million British thermal units (/mmbtu), a level not seen since mid-2018. Following the recent winter spot price spike in Asia, the European market has been sustaining global LNG prices, making the region a battleground for global LNG price formation, new research from global natural resources consultancy Wood Mackenzie found.

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  Packaging redesign could reduce global plastic demand by 20% by 2050

  • 10 6月 2021

  Plastic packaging redesign, which includes elimination, substitution and reuse approaches, could reduce global plastic packaging demand in 2050 from 190MT to 150MT, according to a new analysis from Wood Mackenzie’s Cross-Polymer Demand Model.

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  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.

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  Producing green LNG is key for Australia to remain competitive

  • 17 6月 2021

  Australian producers need to be at the forefront of green LNG to remain competitive, says Wood Mackenzie.

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  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.

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  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).

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  Wood Mackenzie launches first-of-its-kind refinery intelligence tool

  • 21 6月 2021

  Wood Mackenzie is now offering Refinery I/O, a new tool providing daily refinery analytics from proprietary data sets.

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  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.

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  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.

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  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.

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  Decarbonising plastic value chains remains Herculean task

  • 26 7月 2021

  Despite the ‘war on plastics’, demand over the coming decades will be robust, underpinned by the growing global middle-class and the material requirements of the energy transition.

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  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.

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  Steel sector emissions must fall 75% under 2°C scenario

  • 10 8月 2021

  Carbon emissions in the steel sector must fall by 75% from today’s levels to limit global warming to within 2 degree Celsius (°C), says Wood Mackenzie.

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  Oil price windfall a ‘golden opportunity’ to speed up sector’s decarbonisation

  • 19 8月 2021

  – Oil and gas companies must use the current cash flow windfall opportunity to speed up decarbonisation of their businesses, global natural resources consultancy Wood Mackenzie, a Verisk business (Nasdaq: VRSK) said in a report released today.

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  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.

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  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).

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  High carbon tax could erode up to 60% of Asia’s refining earnings

  • 05 10月 2021

  A high carbon tax could erode up to 60% of Asia’s total refining earnings by 2027, says Wood Mackenzie, at the Global Energy Summit Focus Week.

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  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.

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  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.

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  Wood Mackenzie and Ball Corporation announce satellite data analytics collaboration

  • 11 11月 2021

  Wood Mackenzie, Inc. a Verisk business (NASDAQ:VRSK), and Ball Corporation (NYSE: BLL) announced today that they have formed a strategic agreement between the two organisations to accelerate the development of advanced analytics for energy markets.