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Sixteenth Session of the IRENA Assembly
The Sixteenth Session of the IRENA Assembly will focus on the theme "Powering Humanity: Renewable Energy for Shared Prosperity"
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EventsIRENA Youth Forum 2026
The IRENA Youth Forum 2026 will mark the eighth edition of the International Renewable Energy Agency’s (IRENA) flagship platform for youth empowerment, intergenerational dialogue, and renewable energy innovation.
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Renewables Recap 2025: “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly”
2025 was a year of renewable energy records.
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Powering resilient islands: Grid modernisation toolkit for SIDS
This toolkit draws on IRENA’s technical grid assessments to provide a pathway to transform aging power systems in small island developing states.
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Empowering Women to be Energy Entrepreneurs Improves Not Only Their Lives but Also Their Communities
Women-led solar entrepreneurship is expanding energy access in underserved communities, empowering women economically while accelerating a just and inclusive energy transition.
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Strategies for Resilience - Ensuring Renewable Power Systems' Readiness to Face Extreme Weather
The exposure of infrastructure such as wind turbines, solar panels, electricity grids and other renewable energy generators to the increasing occurrence of extreme weather events driven by climate change, highlights the urgent need to make renewables-based power systems more climate resilient.
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Unlocking Geothermal Energy Potential: Decarbonising Heating and Cooling and Agri-food Sectors in South East Europe
IRENA, through the Global Geothermal Alliance, will host a virtual workshop to support South East Europe stakeholders in assessing geothermal energy potential for decarbonising heating, cooling, and agri-food sectors through resource assessment tools, regulatory frameworks, and case studies.
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Meeting of the Collaborative Framework on Just and Inclusive Energy Transitions: Strategies for Benefit Sharing, Social Inclusion and Public Engagement
IRENA convened government representatives, practitioners and experts under the Collaborative Framework on Just and Inclusive Energy Transitions to discuss strategies for ensuring workers and communities benefit from the energy transition, focusing on social inclusion, public engagement and fair benefit distribution.
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Digitalisation and AI: Gamechangers for the Energy Transition
Digitalisation and AI are transforming global power systems by enabling smarter grid management, predictive maintenance, demand response and renewable integration, with targeted policies and skills development essential to ensure equitable benefits across developed and emerging economies.
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Renewables Recap 2025: “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly”
2025 was a year of renewable energy records.
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Enhancing resilience: Climate-proofing power infrastructure
As global reliance on power systems increases, this report highlights the need to enhance their resilience to climate change and extreme weather events.
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Kenya: #3xRenewables for Energy Independence and Food Security
In a coastal fishing community in Kwale County, Kenya, solar power is providing reliable electricity for cold storage. This helps local fishermen preserve their catch, reduces dependence on a fluctuating grid, supports livelihoods through fairer prices, and secures a sustainable solar-powered future for the community.
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IRENA Appoints Dr Mike Enskat to Lead Its Innovation and Technology Centre in Bonn
As of 1st December, Dr Mike Enskat assumes the role of Director of the International Renewable Energy Agencies’ Innovation and Technology Centre (IITC) in Bonn.
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EventsSenegal Masterplan Development Support Programme – Phase 2 Training course 4: OnSSET
IRENA, GIZ and Senegal's Ministry of Energy, Petroleum and Mines held a training workshop on the OnSSET tool for integrated electrification planning, piloting IRENA's Strategic Energy Access Planning Support programme as part of the Senegal Masterplan Development Support Programme.
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Socio-economic impacts of the energy transition: Malaysia
Malaysia is well-placed to achieve more equitable and resilient development by leveraging the benefits created by the energy transition.
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Progress, Shortfalls and Emerging Opportunities in Energy Transition Investment
As global energy transition investment reached a record USD 2.4 trillion in 2024, significant gaps remain in funding for key technologies and regions, underscoring the need for impact-driven finance and stronger public sector leadership to ensure all countries can meet the 2030 target of tripling renewable power capacity.
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EventsIRENA Insights
Every other week, presenters from one of IRENA’s teams – either alone or together with invited guests – will provide focused insights into opportunities, trends, best practices and innovative solutions to address challenges, signpost further sources of more in-depth information and provide an opportunity to engage with IRENA’s experts through Q&A sessions.
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5th Collaborative Framework on Critical Materials for the Energy Transition
The fifth meeting of IRENA's Collaborative Framework on Critical Materials for the Energy Transition will convene governments, industry leaders, and experts to discuss innovations in EV batteries, focusing on supply chain sustainability, circularity, recycling systems, and ESG integration to support tripling renewable energy capacity by 2030.
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Capacity Building on Geothermal Direct Use Applications
IRENA will conduct a four-day capacity-building workshop in Uganda to support stakeholders in developing geothermal direct-use applications for the agri-food sector, with practical training on policy, regulation, technology, and finance leading to a roadmap for pilot demonstration projects.
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Sodium-ion batteries: A technology brief
This report examines the technology and market outlook for sodium-ion batteries, and their potential to reshape the EV battery landscape.
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Five Takeaways from COP30 in Belém
At COP30 in Belém, the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) launched progress-tracking reports, provided climate support to countries, and identified five priority areas including implementation, grids, finance, supply chains, and workforce to accelerate the energy transition toward 1.5°C goals.
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Global renewable energy investment breach $800b in 2024
Capital injected into renewable energy has reached $807b in 2024, which is about one-third of the $2.4t investments made in energy transition last year.
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How To Boost Renewable Energy in the Developing World
As the world accelerates efforts toward carbon neutrality, it is becoming increasingly clear that developing countries will play a defining role in the success—or failure—of the global energy transition.
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