Renewable investment enters a new phase as grids become the limiting factor
According to Energy Monitor's parent company GlobalData, global renewable energy investment reached about $683bn in 2025 and is projected to…
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Thom Atkinson
WCN's editor-in-chief
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Power generation’s $8.28tn problem – too many plans, not enough buildable work
The global power sector has no shortage of investment ambition. GlobalData's Q2 2026 assessment identifies around $8.28tn of power generation…
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Why freight decarbonisation is becoming an infrastructure race
Freight operators face a familiar problem with decarbonisation. Regulatory deadlines are becoming clearer just as the infrastructure needed to meet…
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Data centres are becoming a defining force in power markets – can renewables keep up?
The energy transition has spent years focused on supply. The next challenge may be demand. According to GlobalData, global data…
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Critical minerals are becoming the energy transition’s delivery constraint
For most of the past decade, the economics of the energy transition improved faster than many perhaps expected. Solar and…
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Hydrogen’s next phase will favour execution over scale
Hydrogen did not contract sharply in Q1 2026. Instead, the market became more selective. GlobalData describes a stable quarter for…
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Global power’s $8tn pipeline faces a buildability test
The global power generation construction pipeline – outside of oil and gas – has reached a scale that would have…
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North America’s energy transition is accelerating, but policy volatility is reshaping the winners
The North America energy transition is entering a more exacting phase. The technology works. The economics broadly hold. What is…
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Africa’s clean energy story is being rewritten by grids, not gigawatts
Africa’s energy transition is unfolding against a far less stable global backdrop than many expected even a year ago. The…
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Middle East energy: A transition under fire
The Middle East’s energy transition was never going to be linear. The conflict involving Iran has made that unmistakable, after…