Off-grid renewable energy solutions are expanding electricity access to underserved communities, enhancing livelihoods while advancing progress across multiple Sustainable Development Goals.
Technologies like micro and mini-hydro power plants (MHPs) play an important role to accelerate universal access in Nepal to affordable and modern energy while reducing communities’ reliance on imported fossil fuels and increasing resilience.
2025 was a year of renewable energy records.
Women-led solar entrepreneurship is expanding energy access in underserved communities, empowering women economically while accelerating a just and inclusive energy transition.
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.
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.
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.
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.
A United Nations climate summit has once again failed to strengthen a pledge made two years ago to transition “away from fossil fuels.” Instead these dirty drivers of the climate crisis went completely unacknowledged in the weekend’s COP30 agreement. It’s disappointing, certainly, but a more ambitious outcome wouldn’t have been much better.
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.
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.
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.
On the slopes of an Oregon volcano, engineers are building the hottest geothermal power plant on Earth.
Global investments in the energy transition reached a new record of USD 2.4 trillion in 2024 – a 20% increase from the average annual levels of 2022/23.
Global utilities today unveiled upgraded annual investment plans that will see energy transition spend rise to US $148 billion per year, up from previously stated ambitions of US $117 billion. The plans revealed by members of the Utilities for Net Zero Alliance (UNEZA) today at COP30, will see a group of the world’s leading utilities mobilise more than USD 1 trillion in energy transition investments to 2030 since establishment at COP28.
As the renewable energy sector races to create over 100 million jobs by 2030, there is an opportunity to ensure people worldwide, particularly youth, women, and underrepresented groups, have the skills and training needed to deliver the energy transition and benefit from its opportunities.
As only 72 countries have submitted NDC 3.0 targeting 6.9 TW of renewable capacity by 2030, falling short of the 11.2 TW tripling goal, there is an urgent opportunity through increased climate finance to bridge the gap, particularly for LDCs, SIDS, and Sub-Saharan Africa requiring USD 117 billion in external funding.
South America’s shift towards renewable energy can unlock new opportunities and drive sustained progress, according to the new Regional Energy Transition Outlook South America released by the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) at the United Nations Climate Conference COP30 in Belém, Brazil.
In an exclusive studio interview with Energy Connects at ADIPEC 2025, IRENA Director General Francesco La Camera highlighted the urgent need for more investments in energy infrastructure, comprehensive market reforms and global workforce reskilling to ensure a faster and more equitable global energy transition.
Tripling renewable energy by 2030 is transforming lives across agriculture, healthcare, small businesses, fisheries, and education, driving sustainable development and economic growth in communities worldwide.
Despite climate ambitions slowing down around the world, Singapore is pushing ahead with its drive for green energy through partnerships, while building momentum on the Asean power grid.
Digitalisation and artificial intelligence-based applications are becoming gamechangers for the energy transition. They cut electricity costs for end-users, increase energy security, improve business performance, and help integrate low-cost renewables, according to a new report.
The International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) convenes its 30th Council meeting tomorrow in Abu Dhabi to review progress on the Agency’s work and consider collective priorities to accelerate the global energy transition, as preparations advance for COP30 and the 16th IRENA Assembly.
Accelerating the energy transition could boost the region’s GDP, showing that sustainable growth is possible.
The International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) is set to convene its 30th Council meeting tomorrow in Abu Dhabi to review progress on the Agency’s work and consider collective priorities to accelerate the global energy transition, as preparations advance for COP30 and the 16th IRENA Assembly.