REPowering for Tripling: Advancing Wind Energy
With 178 GW of onshore wind capacity set to enter its prime repowering window by 2030, the urgency to act has never been greater. In this webinar, IRENA's Coalition for Action presented preliminary...
Tracking SDG 7: The Energy Progress Report 2026
The Tracking SDG 7: The Energy Progress Report 2026 finds 655 million people are still living without electricity. Latest data show uneven progress, highlighting the critical need to focus on affor...
IRENA Insights: Charcoal in Modern Cooking Transition
Nearly 30% of the 2.1 billion people without access to clean cooking rely on charcoal, and its use continues to rise in urban sub-Saharan Africa. In this webinar, IRENA presents its report on the p...
Electrification to Lead the Next Phase of Energy Transition
IRENA's latest roadmap finds that electrifying transport, industry and buildings, alongside tripling renewables and doubling efficiency, can drive electrification from 23% to over 50% of energy con...
Clean Cooking Investments: Data gaps and priorities for SDG7 progress
Clean cooking investment is critical to achieving SDG 7, yet the data needed to guide effective capital deployment remains fragmented and incomplete. Closing these gaps across domestic, private sec...
Patents and the Energy Transition
With over 1.1 million renewable energy patents filed worldwide by 2025, understanding how intellectual property protects and scales innovation is key to driving the energy transition forward
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Decarbonizing Heavy-Duty Road Transport: A Patent Landscape Overview
WIPO and IRENA's Patent Landscape Report: Decarbonising Heavy-Duty Road Transport finds that while 94% of trucks and buses still run on fossil fuels, decarbonisation patents in the sector have near...
24/7 Renewables Outcompete Fossil Fuels on Cost
IRENA's 24/7 Renewables: The Economics of Firm Solar and Wind finds that solar and wind paired with battery storage now deliver round-the-clock electricity at costs already below fossil fuel altern...
Enabling a nature-positive energy transition
Renewable energy plays a vital role in mitigating climate change, but the deployment of solar, wind, and grid infrastructure can interact with surrounding ecosystems in complex ways. Understanding ...
Toward Ocean Energy Readiness in Indian Ocean Rim Association Member States
This two-part webinar series introduced offshore renewable technologies, including offshore wind and floating solar, as well as ocean energy technologies such as wave, tidal, ocean thermal energy c...
From Energy Crisis to Energy Security
IRENA’s latest brief, Renewables: From Energy Crisis to Energy Security, highlights how rapidly scaling affordable solar, wind, and battery storage can cut fossil fuel dependence, strengthen energy...
IRENA Insights: Solar Supply Chain Cost Tool - understanding cost drivers in module manufacturing
The costs of manufacturing solar PV modules vary significantly across the supply chain, from polysilicon production to final module assembly. Understanding these cost drivers is essential to assess...
Renewable Capacity Statistics 2026
IRENA's 2026 edition of the annual Renewable Capacity Statistics reveals another record-breaking year for renewable power. With 692 GW of new capacity added, a 15.5% annual increase, solar and wind...
Clean Cooking Is Key to a Just and Inclusive Energy Transition
With 2.1 billion people still dependent on traditional fuels like firewood and charcoal, closing the clean cooking gap demands targeted financing and innovative solutions. Understanding the role of...
IRENA Insights: Enhancing Resilience: Climate-proofing Power Infrastructure
Climate change is intensifying risks to power systems worldwide, threatening critical infrastructure and the reliable supply of electricity. Strengthening resilience is essential as extreme weather...
Unlocking the Value of LDES: Market Design, Policy Signals and the Path to Deployment for LDES
The International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) and the LDES Council hosted the second webinar in a three-part series, bringing together policymakers, market designers and industry experts to exp...
Renewable Energy Auctions
Renewable energy auctions are now the leading method to deploy clean power worldwide, but getting the design right is key to ensuring they deliver fair, sustainable, and affordable outcomes for eme...
IRENA Insights - Next-Generation EV Batteries: Innovation, Materials and Supply Chain Resilience
EV battery demand is set to grow fivefold by 2030 to meet climate goals, putting intense pressure on lithium, cobalt and nickel supply chains. Sodium-ion batteries offer a strategic alternative, as...
Digitalisation: Key Enabler to the Energy Transition
The International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) identifies how digital innovation and artificial intelligence (AI) are transforming power systems forecasting demand, integrating more renewables a...
Success Stories in Solar-powered Agriculture
Agri-food systems are among the largest consumers of fossil fuel-based energy, yet remain deeply vulnerable to climate change. Agrivoltaics, the dual use of land for solar PV and agricultural produ...