Author: Anela Dokso
Anela Dokso
Anela Dokso is Project Manager at EnergyNews.biz, where she runs partnerships, sponsored campaigns, webinars and event coverage with energy companies and organizers. She coordinates the newsroom calendar and the EnergyNews.biz newsletter read by more than 72,000 energy professionals.
As China heads into its annual Two Sessions in early March, the gap between climate ambition and implementation capacity is becoming a central policy question.
Europe’s installed battery capacity surpassed 17 gigawatts in 2025 after adding more than 7 gigawatts in just two years, yet deployment remains uneven across the continent.
Despite promising baseload power, geothermal continues to attract a fraction of the investment flowing into wind and solar. Mike Eason, Chief Technology Officer at John Crane, argues that the sector’s bottleneck is not resources—it’s engineering credibility.
Global electricity demand growth is now outpacing total energy demand growth, a structural shift that is forcing policymakers and investors to rethink how energy systems are measured and planned.
Europe’s climate strategy is quietly pivoting, with EU environment ministers signalling a shift toward a more transactional and pragmatic approach in global climate negotiations. The closed-door meeting on February 4 emphasized that Europe can no longer rely solely on consensus-driven multilateralism, particularly after COP30 in Belém, Brazil exposed the limits of political coordination.
As hydrogen projects face rising costs and a growing list of cancellations globally, new data from DNV’s Oil and Gas Decarbonisation in the Gulf Region report underscores why the technology remains strategically central in the Middle East.
Public support for Europe’s energy transition remains broadly intact, but consumers increasingly see governments as lagging behind stated climate ambitions.
The steel industry has reached a turning point as the first commercial-scale shipment of hydrogen-produced steel leaves the German-Swedish consortium Stegra, signaling the end of the pilot phase and the start of industrial decarbonization.
Africa’s green hydrogen pipeline tells a story of scale without execution: while developers have announced roughly 38 gigawatts of planned clean hydrogen capacity across the continent, only about 17 megawatts are currently operational.
Global renewable energy capacity continued to expand at record pace in 2024, yet employment growth lagged far behind, rising just 2.3 percent year on year to 16.6 million jobs, according to the Renewable Energy and Jobs Annual Review 2025 published by the International Renewable Energy Agency and the International Labour Organization.
