Russia’s repeated attacks on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure have transformed electricity resilience from an engineering concern into a core element of national security policy across Europe.
China aims to source half of its electricity generation from non-fossil fuels by 2030, up from a target of 42.3% in 2025, according to the country’s newly released 15th Five-Year Plan for Building a New Energy System.
The world added renewable energy capacity at a record pace and pushed clean electricity generation above 30 percent of global supply, yet 655 million people still lived without electricity in 2024 and roughly two billion lacked access to clean cooking technologies.
The shift toward large scale renewable energy deployment in the United States is increasingly becoming a financing and infrastructure challenge rather than a technology question. Permanent Power Company, a national power platform backed by CIM Group, has secured approximately $600 million in construction financing for its Grape solar and energy storage project in California, highlighting the growing role of hybrid renewable projects in addressing grid reliability and clean energy demand.
Southeast Asia’s ambition to create an interconnected electricity market remains constrained by a missing regional framework for cross border power trade, according to Sarawak Premier Tan Sri Abang Johari Tun Openg. Despite years of discussion around the ASEAN Power Grid, member states have yet to establish a common implementation mechanism that defines how electricity interconnections should operate across national borders.
