Statistical indicators of lithium production and reserves are of undoubted interest, primarily due to the increased demand for lithium in the automotive industry. According to the latest USGS edition for 2020, more than 70% of global lithium consumption is associated with the manufacturing of batteries. However, the slowdown of the global economy due to the coronavirus pandemic has had a negative impact on this industrial sector as...
The Renewables 2021 Global Status Report launched by REN21 highlights developments in the global renewable energy market in 2020, giving comprehensive data on capacity additions and total installations, investment flows and the policy commitments of countries to deploy renewable energy technologies. In general, the new report illustrates the notable gap between targets and actions, and makes it clear that governments need to become...
The 70th annual edition of the BP Statistical review of World Energy provides an overview on energy developments for 2020 and characterizes this year as «one of the most turbulent years the world has ever seen» due to the impact of the global pandemic. The review notes significant increase in renewable energy with solar power achieving the largest growth in history. At the same time, there was a decline in the rate of primary...
Every year the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) releases its statistical review of renewable power generation capacity. The 2021 edition presents comprehensive statistics for 2011-2020, based on data from a variety of sources and on measuring the maximum net generating capacity of power plants and other installations that use renewable energy sources to produce electricity. In 2020, despite the economic downturn caused by...
The IEA's annual Global Energy Survey estimates energy demand and carbon dioxide emissions in 2021, providing insights into economic activity and energy consumption in countries around the world in the second year of the Covid-19 pandemic. As predicted in last year's IEA report, global energy demand fell by 4% in 2020, the largest decline since World War II and the largest absolute decline on record. Energy demand statistics for the...
Ember's annual Global Electricity Review analyses electricity data providing a snapshot of global electricity demand and showing progress towards a transition to fossil-free energy. The 2021 edition presents a global dataset in 217 countries from 2000 to 2020. The 2020 data cover 90% of the world's electricity production. The pandemic has influenced the global energy market in general and the electricity sector was no exception. In...
The 2021 edition of the Global Wind Report presented by the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) presents the figures to new wind capacity in 2020 highlighting the role of the wind power on the road to global net zero economy. Despite the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, 2020 was a record year for global wind power industry, with 93 GW of new capacity installed. This is about 53% more than in 2019, when 60.4 GW of new wind energy was...
The new edition of Wind energy in Europe report analyses European wind power market summarizing new installations and financing activity in 2020 and making a development forecast for the next five years (2021 to 2025). According to the report, Europe has installed 14.7 GW of new wind capacity in 2020. Although this is down 6% from 2019 and 19% lower than predicted in pre-COVID times, the situation could have been worse due to...
The European Power Sector Report is an annual review of the status of energy transition in the electricity sector in Europe. For the fifth year in a row the German think-tank Agora Energiewende, dedicated to developing factual and politically viable strategies for a clean energy transition in Germany, Europe and the rest of the world, and Ember, a British independent climate think-tank focused on the global transition from coal to...
The statistical office of the European Union, Eurostat, has updated data on renewable energy in the EU in 2019, providing statistics on the share of energy from all renewable sources in general and specifically in three consumption sectors - electricity, heating and cooling, and transport. In 2019, renewable energy accounted for 19.7 % of the energy used in the EU-27. This is just 0.3% below the target of a 20% share of...
