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Features

Renewables

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6/8/2025 Feature / Mohua Mukherjee

Delivering the energy transition in India: the supply side

After remarkable growth of renewable energy capacity addition, India achieved 50% clean power capacity five years ahead of its National Determined Contributions (NDC) target, according to the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy. Now, the focus is shifting towards the requirements for green energy delivery mechanisms in India’s coal-dominated grid. Mohua Mukherjee, Senior Research Fellow at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies (OIES) puts the shift in context.

Renewables

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6/8/2025 Feature / Mohua Mukherjee

Energy transition in India: what’s happening on the demand side

Mohua Mukherjee, Senior Research Fellow at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies (OIES), looks at the state of play of the energy transition on the demand side, with useful lessons for all developing countries.

Energy security

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30/4/2025 Feature / Will Dalrymple

Sharing visions of energy security for an increasingly polarised world

While not quite a council of war, comments at the Summit of the Future of Energy Security, organised by the International Energy Agency (IEA) and hosted by the UK government in London on 24–25 April 2025, set a combative tone in an age of uncertainty and conflict. New Energy World Senior Editor Will Dalrymple was there.

Cooling

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6/8/2025 Feature / Sara Siddeeq

Cooling reimagined: how India’s super-efficient ACs could transform the grid

Sara Siddeeq reports on an innovative industrial collaboration which aims to bring comfort and energy savings to residents of India’s sweltering cities.

Oil and gas

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30/7/2025 Feature / Andrew Mourant

Why oil-rich Venezuela still struggles to pay its bills

Venezuela is a byword for economic degradation. A country with the world’s richest oil reserves still struggles to get its wealth out of the ground, and its energy infrastructure forever teeters on the point of collapse. Yet so many of Venezuela’s economic wounds are self-inflicted, with natural advantages and opportunities squandered. Meanwhile, Cuba also grapples with its renewable energy plans. Andrew Mourant reports.

Renewables

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30/7/2025 Feature / Ángela Martínez

On a knife edge: why Mexico’s new President faces significant challenges to her energy transition plans

Mexico’s new President Claudia Sheinbaum is certainly well-qualified to reform her country’s energy system. But her ambitious plans may be curtailed by political expediency. Ángela Martínez reports from Mexico City.

Grid management

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30/7/2025 Feature / Brian Davis

Joining the dots: how a hybrid approach to grid networks makes sense in the transition

Power grid connection is often one of the largest obstacles facing the green energy transition today. If we are to avoid grid congestion and gain the full potential of green energy, innovative approaches will be needed. One area of innovation will be the adoption of hybrid power plants, where presently most renewable energy resources operate in independent silos. New Energy World Features Editor Brian Davis reports on key European and Asian initiatives.

Grid management

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23/7/2025 Feature / Melissa Stark

How to avoid future black-outs: UK and Texas grid operators compare and contrast

To better understand the challenges faced by electricity system operators as renewable energy systems are integrated with grids, a Rice University MBA team including Melissa Stark, Linda Capuano, Nish Shanmugham and Lei Zhu, compared two leading system operators: the Electricity Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) and the UK’s National System Operator (NESO).

Electricity

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23/7/2025 Feature / Will Dalrymple

Seasons in the sun: how solar power is changing Europe’s electricity markets

The flare of interest among northern Europeans in solar power over the last few years is sparking great demand for grid flexibility services, including battery storage, finds this year’s Observatory of Energy Transitions report from De Gaulle Fleurance. New Energy World Senior Editor Will Dalrymple reports.

Rare earth materials/Critical minerals

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23/7/2025 Feature / Gemma Fox

Decarbonising Australian mining of critical clean energy minerals

The global energy landscape is undergoing a significant transformation, with a decisive shift towards renewable energy sources. As one of the world’s largest mining nations, Australia is uniquely positioned to influence and drive this transition by becoming a leading supplier of many of the essential minerals and metals needed for clean energy technologies. However, the mining sector is a notoriously dirty sector, so Australian mining companies are exploring how to supply critical minerals for the energy transition without directly contributing to what the energy transition is trying to solve – climate change. Energy Institute Senior Energy Product Lead Gemma Fox explores this modern dilemma.

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