• Opinion

  2023 was a tough year for clean energy investment. Will 2024 be better?

  • 20 二月 2024

  Join Ed Crooks, Amy Myers-Jaffe and Dan Goldman as they discuss the downturn in climate-focused funds and venture capital flows. What’s impacting clean energy shares?

• News Release

  Asia Pacific could become a global leader in the energy transition

  • 21 二月 2024

  Home to half of the world’s population and contributing a third to the global GDP, the Asia Pacific region is expected to maintain a 50% share of global primary energy demand and a 60% share of global carbon emissions until 2050. This trend is unlikely to change without strong policy action and investment. However, the region still has the potential to turn these challenges into opportunities and become a global leader in the energy transition.

• The Edge

  Why Brent isn’t reacting to escalating geopolitical risk

  • 08 二月 2024

  Today’s geopolitical temperature is close to boiling point. So why haven’t oil prices leapt in response, as we’ve seen in the past?

• Opinion

  What does 2024 have in store for energy?

  • 09 一月 2024

  Curious about the future of energy in 2024? Join Ed Crooks and experts Amy Myers-Jaffe and Dr Melissa Lott as they discuss the influence of elections, COP events, and cutting-edge technologies like enhanced geothermal power.

• Opinion

  Ten predictions for energy in 2024

  • 15 十二月 2023

  A solar slowdown, relief for OPEC+, the rise of blue hydrogen, and other trends to watch out for in the year ahead

• Opinion

  AI is transforming demand-side management

  • 03 一月 2024

  The role of artificial intelligence in energy management is an exciting development. We examine how AI is transforming strategic forecasting, risk management and optimisation in energy infrastructure.

• Opinion

  Global economy proves robust – but risks remain skewed to the downside

  • 29 十一月 2023

  Our latest outlook finds a remarkably robust global economy, with the US and China both beating expectations in Q3 – but it’s a far from universal story and clouds remain on the horizon.

• The Edge

  COP28 preview: five things to look for

  • 23 十一月 2023

  Paris reset or Groundhog Day?

• News Release

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

  • 05 四月 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.

• News Release

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

  • 12 四月 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.

• News Release

  How the energy transition can reduce the risk of future shocks

  • 21 四月 2022

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

• News Release

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

  • 18 五月 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.

• News Release

  UK government swoops on North Sea windfall profits

  • 27 五月 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.

• News Release

  U.S. Solar Industry Sees Worst Quarter Since 2020

  • 07 六月 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.

• News Release

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

  • 08 六月 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.

• News Release

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

  • 13 六月 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.

• Comment

  Major energy players raise the game in green investments in Asia

  • 15 六月 2022

  BP confirmed today that it picked up over 40% stake in the Asian Renewable Energy Hub project to produce and export green hydrogen in Australia.

• News Release

  Global top 10 solar PV inverter vendors account for 82% of market share

  • 08 七月 2022

  Global top 10 solar photovoltaic (PV) inverter vendors shored up 82% of market share in 2021, increasing by 2 percentage points compared to 2020, says Wood Mackenzie.

• Opinion

  Asia’s decarbonisation ambition isn’t matching reality

  • 07 七月 2022

  Without action, a disorderly energy transition across Asia Pacific is looming.

• News Release

  Energy transition may shave 2% off global GDP by 2050

  • 20 一月 2022

  The world has the means, motive and opportunity to cap global warming to the 1.5°C limit agreed in the Paris Climate Accord, new research released today by Wood Mackenzie, a Verisk company (Nasdaq: VRSK) shows. But there will be tangible economic implications of an accelerated energy transition. While global economic output is likely to take a hit until 2050, it could be recoverable by the end of the century, according to Wood Mackenzie.

• Comment

  China’s GDP to further decelerate in Q4 2021

  • 01 十二月 2021

  China’s economy has faced headwinds from flooding, Covid outbreaks and power rationing in H2 2021. This resulted in a steeper-than-expected economic slowdown for the third quarter, says Wood Mackenzie

• Content

  Back to the future: the Horizons year in review

  • 09 十二月 2021

  We touched on a number of issues this year with our new thought-leadership series. Post-COP26, it's time to review the articles and put them in recent context.

• Comment

  Woodside confirms potential merger with BHP's petroleum business

  • 16 八月 2021

  Woodside has confirmed it is in discussions with BHP over a potential merger involving BHP’s entire petroleum business.

• News Release

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

  • 19 八月 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.

• Content

  One giant leap: President Biden's vision for repowering America

  • 16 九月 2021

  Sixty years after President John F. Kennedy launched the programme that would put the first man on the moon, US President Joe Biden has set an equally challenging, transformative goal: achieving net zero emissions in the US power sector by 2035 and the broader economy by 2050.

• News Release

  Global energy storage set to triple in 2021

  • 07 十月 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.

• News Release

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

  • 08 十月 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.

• Comment

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

  • 25 十月 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.

• Comment

  Colonial Pipeline cyberattack may benefit European refiners

  • 10 五月 2021

  The 2.5 million barrels per day (b/d) Colonial Pipeline moves roughly 45% of the US East Coast's supply of gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel from the Gulf Coast. The duration of the outage following the cyberattack on 7 May 2021 is uncertain. In the short term, Wood Mackenzie expects fuel demand and prices to rise in PADD 1, prompting refined fuel inventories to decline and PADD 1 refiners to maximize production.

• News Release

  OPEC+ maintains production plan

  • 27 四月 2021

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