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Can Poland dismantle the EU Green Deal with legal challenges?
Warsaw has challenged key pillars of President von der Leyen’s climate policy with the EU’s high court, and looks set to challenge more. If successful, it could upend EU energy policy.
Asia likely to account for entire global phenol capacity additions by 2030
Growing demand for bisphenol A and resins drive capacity additions in the region.
Europe’s policies shape offshore wind as renewable power frontier, says GlobalData
Offshore wind is increasingly being treated as strategic infrastructure rather than simply another generation technology.
Oil and gas electrification: why the sector’s big shift has a power problem
Mature technologies are allowing operators to electrify equipment across the value chain, but grid connections and power costs are slowing the transition.
Big Oil is flying high on profits, yet grounding clean aviation
Europe’s oil majors are making bumper profits from jet fuel just as the EU is trying to accelerate the transition to cleaner aviation fuels. With industry lobbying intensifying around ReFuelEU, 2027 will be a critical test of whether Brussels holds firm on its aviation decarbonisation plans, writes Diane Vitry, aviation director at T&E Brussels.
Türkiye readies offshore wind to reshape renewables landscape, says GlobalData
Türkiye’s broader renewable energy strategy targets 120GW of combined solar and wind capacity by 2035 and explicitly includes offshore wind.
Portugal’s gas-fired plants to remain essential, renewables to surge, says GlobalData
Electricity demand in the country is set to increase from 53TWh in 2025 to about 57.3TWh by 2030, with renewable capacity booming through solar PV, wind, and hydropower.
Europe’s electrification target needs 50GW of new nuclear capacity
The European Commission wants electricity to cover 46% of final energy by 2040. That will be extremely difficult without nuclear providing 25–30% of generation. On that basis, Europe would need roughly 60 new large-reactor or SMR projects to enter planning and development over the next four years, writes Kalev Kallemets, CEO of Estonian SMR developer Fermi Energia.
Japan’s nuclear restarts hit waste management and licensing hurdles, says GlobalData
Nuclear generation recovered sharply to 101.0TWh in 2025 and is projected to rise to 123.3TWh by 2035.
Europe’s renewables expansion is shifting value towards flexibility
Europe is set for another decade of fast renewable growth, but new analysis suggests that generation capacity is no longer the best way to spot commercial opportunities.
Africa to drive global upcoming conventional refineries capacity additions by 2030
Growing domestic fuel demand drive conventional refinery capacity additions in the region.