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READ: New Insights Brief on energy storage

"Energy storage is a gamechanger and this innovation brief highlights we need new and different storage pathways to enable better lives and a healthy planet. It is time to look beyond battery technology innovation and enable new policies on storage and its roles as an energy resource, an enabler of whole systems reliability and accelerator the global energy transition." -Angela Wilkinson, Secretary General & CEO of the World Energy Council

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100 Years in the Global Energy Agenda

Dr. Angela Wilkinson, Secretary General and CEO of the World Energy Council's New Year Message

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JOIN: Hydrogen Global

Hydrogen Global creates a platform supporting the enablers of the clean hydrogen movement with a space to share progress around its safe and widespread deployment. This initiative encourages the serious consideration of clean molecules as a complement to electrification. Join the movement.

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Deep Dive: Hydrogen

Hydrogen is a promising decarbonisation solution that has found a recently renewed potential across the globe. Explore the full breadth of the Council's work on hydrogen, from insight to impact, with this comprehensive overview.

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Launch of New 2019 World Energy Trilemma Index

Energy security, equity, and environmental sustainability: 3 objectives of a balanced Trilemma, one of the World Energy Council’s Leaders tools - in collaboration with Oliver Wyman.

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24th Congress Strategic Messages Released

A key message for this year’s Congress includes the need to harness the emerging promise of a new era of global abundance of clean and renewable energy sources and technologies.

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Working towards successful Energy transition

The World Energy Council actively contributes the insights needed by energy leaders to make effective strategic, policy and business decisions about the energy transition. We provide reliable data, useful tools and impartial comment.

Our interactive Energy Transition Toolkit includes five comprehensive tools that can be used together or separately. They have been proven to drive effective change and bring us closer to achieving successful energy transition.

"These tools are invaluable because they’re flexible, scalable and adaptable. They give weight to our thinking and allow us to develop strategies so that we can work on the practical solutions needed to tackle energy transition."

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Tools for successful Energy Transition

World Energy Issues Monitor

annual reality check of 2,000+ energy leaders worldwide focusing on the challenges of energy transition

Energy Trilemma Index

better policy through balancing energy security, equity and environmental sustainability

World Energy Scenarios

strategic foresight tool that explores pathways to improve preparation for the energy transition

Dynamic Resilience Framework

a framework for emerging and systemic risk management, including new challenges like weather hazards and cyber-security

Innovation Insights

to help members navigate the shifting innovation landscape

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Published on 23 Jan 2020

Innovation

Innovation Insights Brief - Five Steps to Energy Storage

Affordable storage systems are a critical missing link between intermittent renewable power and a 24/7 reliability net-zero carbon scenario. Beyond solving this salient challenge...

Published on 14 Oct 2019

Issues Monitor

Europe

Issues Monitor | 2019: The World’s Energy Agenda & Its Evolution

This report focuses on the issues facing the energy transition in Europe, using data collected by surveying over 40 managers from the European Distribution System Operators (E.DSO) and...

Published on 11 Sep 2019

Energy Trilemma

Global

World Energy Trilemma Index | 2019

The World Energy Council’s definition of energy sustainability is based on three core dimensions: Energy Security, Energy Equity, and Environmental Sustainability of Energy Systems. Balancing these...

Published on 11 Sep 2019

Energy Scenarios

Europe

World Energy Scenarios | 2019: European Regional Perspectives

This report explores three plausible pathways to 2040 for a European region in Modern Jazz, Unfinished Symphony and Hard Rock futures.

Published on 10 Sep 2019

Dynamic Resilience

Global

Cyber challenges to the energy transition

The energy sector is experiencing a transformation, new synergies are being realised through linking operational, information technology, and communication systems: the sector’s digital footprint...

Published on 10 Sep 2019

Reports

Designing for Disruptions: A new era for energy

The energy sector is undergoing widespread disruption. Technology is advancing rapidly while new business models are emerging. Government policies and public attitudes and behaviour are...