World Energy Outlook 2016 published by IEA
16.11.2016
The long-established links between economic activity, energy use and energy-related emissions are weakening. Renewables-based electricity generating capacity additions in 2015 exceeded those of all other fuels, taken together. Over 1 million electric passenger vehicles were sold globally in 2015 - a small proportion, but a landmark. Global energy intensity fell in 2015 at twice the average rate of the previous decade. COP 21 commitments set an ambitious course for the future. The energy transition is gathering momentum.
But will the various country commitments made at COP 21 in Paris be fully implemented? What does the slump in prices for and investment in fossil fuels mean for future energy supply? Are there technical or economic limits to the growth in renewables power generation? Will modern energy ever be available to the entire global population?
The World Energy Outlook 2016 (WEO-2016), enables you to provide your own, informed answers to these questions, based on the customary mix of rigorous quantitative modeling, analysis and insight.
The summery of the WEO 2016 is available online: http://www.iea.org/Textbase/npsum/WEO2016SUM.pdf
The full edition of the WEO 2016 must be ordered from IEA at: http://www.iea.org/bookshop/