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PRESS RELEASE: 2026 World Issues Monitor: Geopolitics – not economics – the key driver of change in turbulent energy landscape

Sat, 04 Apr 2026 11:40:32 +0000

2026 World Issues Monitor: Geopolitics – not economics – the key driver of change in turbulent energy landscape

26 March 2026, BEIJING, CHINA: The World Energy Council has today published its annual World Energy Issues Monitor at the 14th China Clean Energy Expo. Titled, “Practicing the World Energy Trilemma: Energy Transitions in 2026,” shows that geopolitics and not economics is now seen as the primary driver of energy transition. It raises a central question for leaders: where is the world energy system heading—and will it hold together? As momentum meets constraint, the focus is shifting from speed to stability in a more fragmented world.

The survey is based on the perspectives of nearly 3,000 energy leaders from over 100 countries, sampled between 24 November 2025 and 12 January 2026. It shows that even before the outbreak of the conflict across the Middle East, the global energy community sees geopolitical threats and uncertainty as the defining feature shaping the energy landscape.

In this year’s survey, perceptions around peace and geopolitical risks, trade and supply chain security increased 7.6 percentage points to 62.5%, narrowly outpacing the 4.1-point rise in economic risk and uncertainty (60.7%).

The Issues Monitor also details sharp increases in uncertainty around Public Trust in Transitions and System Risk Preparedness (+11 and +10 percentage points from 2025 respectively). As a result, progress is now seen to depend less on new pledges or commitments by official entities and instead on how energy transitions can practically be delivered in an environment of reduced cooperation and significant constraints.

Dr Angela Wilkinson, Secretary General & CEO of the World Energy Council, said: “Energy is the operating system of civilisation. This year’s World Energy Issues Monitor marks a turning point. Energy is under strain. The real question is no longer speed, but whether the system holds as trade-offs intensify. No country can steer this alone. We are shifting fragmentation into collective navigation.

As the world moves beyond adding supply to managing whole systems in real time — it exposes harder, shifting trade-offs between security, affordability and sustainability. And without a shared understanding of affordability, nothing will scale.

It’s time to rebalance dialogue and test whether we can manage and steer the world’s most critical system together.”

The World Energy Trilemma Framework matters more than ever as a leadership tool to manage the competing demands of security, sustainability and affordability. As geopolitical volatility reshapes transition pathways, countries are actively rebalancing their Trilemma priorities. Global peace and geopolitical risks are of greatest uncertainty across Europe, Asia and North America, while finance and investment risks are most critical across Africa and Latin America and the Caribbean.

Read the full report: http://worldenergy.org/WEIM26

About the World Energy Issues Monitor

The World Energy Issues Monitor is a community-driven effort to refresh global common sense in energy. Each year it brings together the perspectives of energy leaders across regions, sectors, and generations to compare signals, surface blind spots, and guide more grounded action. In this 16th iteration, nearly 3000 energy leaders across over 110 countries assessed the impact and uncertainty of key transition issues shaping today’s operating environment. The Issues Monitor does not prescribe pathways. It sharpens judgement. By illuminating pressure points and emerging bright spots, it supports leaders in holding security, affordability, and sustainability together as energy systems expand and transform.

About the World Energy Council

The World Energy Council is the world’s oldest independent and impartial energy leadership community. Through our Humanising Energy vision, we involve more people and communities in accelerating clean and inclusive energy transitions in all world regions.

Formed in 1923, the Council is a UN-accredited global energy body that has convened diverse interests from across the full energy ecosystem for a century. Today our global network has over 3,000 member organisations and a presence in more than 100 countries, drawn from governments, private and state corporations, academia and civil society, as well as current and future energy leaders. We collaborate on impact programmes and inform local, regional and global energy agendas in support of our enduring mission: to promote the sustainable use and supply of energy for the benefit of all people.

Find out more at www.worldenergy.org and on LinkedIn, Instagram and X.

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BLOG: Energy systems transitions just entered their hardest phase and leadership dialogue is struggling to keep up.

Tue, 31 Mar 2026 11:32:36 +0000

Energy systems transitions just entered their hardest phase — and leadership dialogue is struggling to keep up

This article was originally published by World Eneryg Council Secretary General and CEO Dr Angela Wilkinson on LinkedIn

This week I was in Aberdeen, Scotland to deliver the annual Prosper lecture in a city that has powered Europe for half a century.

Before the lecture I participated in a roundtable on the UK energy policy context. What struck me most was the distance from, and growing frustration with, the void in UK energy leadership dialogue.

World energy leadership has become harder as energy systems have grown bigger, more complex and more interconnected over the past century.

Those who know me well will also know my interest in collective leadership as a characteristic of systems health, rather than individual heroics.

Energy leadership dialogue is a process. At its best, it creates space for constructive disagreement, stress-testing choices and informing tough trade-offs through collective leadership learning.

And for century, the World Energy Council community has operated as the infrastructure of trust in convening diverse world energy leadership communities in a living dialogue supported through a connected series of global, regional and national events.

Yet what many around the table sensed was a lack of this dialogue process in the UK.

A void of inclusive, intergenerational leadership dialogue in the UK on how to navigate energy transitions in a fragmented, many-games world.

Everyone senses the shift. The global energy transition is moving from a phase of technology optimism to one of system management.

The easier choices on adding renewable supply have largely been taken.

What remains are harder decisions involving real trade-offs between energy security, affordability and environmental sustainability – what we call the World Energy Trilemma Framework. Investment in systems resilience is also critical.

In practice this means balancing:

investment in new infrastructure;
reliable energy supply;
affordable energy for households and industry;

All at the same time.

Trade-offs do not disappear as new clean power systems scale.

They evolve and are redistributed.

As the shift toward electrification accelerates across the world the need to regularly rebalance priorities and refresh trade-offs is the best way to avoid flip flopping between climate-first, security-first, equity-first politics.

In the UK discussion, five fault lines were surfaced; simplified binaries that risk obscuring the real whole energy systems transformation challenges.

1. Speed vs system coherence

The UK power system is entering a phase where grid capacity, not generation, is the bottleneck.

2. Market design vs state planning

Electricity grids, hydrogen networks and nuclear programmes require long-term coordination beyond markets alone.

3. Investment vs affordability

The UK now has some of the highest electricity prices in the developed world, shaping public tolerance for transition policies and impacting industry.

4. Centralisation vs decentralisation

Digitalisation enables local energy ecosystems — but national infrastructure still carries the system.

5. Climate leadership vs energy security

The US energy dominance strategy and Russia’s weaponisation of gas have pushed many countries toward security-first energy policy. UK energy policy maintains the Paris Agreement and European climate-first frame on energy but risks failing to connect with other regions.

Energy transitions leadership dialogues are not simply about adding new wind and solar power supplies.

They are political and societal choices about how to manage difficult trade-offs under tightening constraints.

And whilst physics still sets the rules of the physical energy flows, Mother Nature holds a set of planetary boundary cards and she doesn’t negotiate.

Which is precisely why the World Energy Trilemma framework remains such a powerful leadership lens.

Not as a static scorecard. But as a dialogue practice — helping leaders rebalance priorities and refresh system-level trade-offs. And creating a bounded space to identify blind-spots – modern energy access, new growth transformations – fiscal, digital, new materials, health, etc.

Next week we launch the World Energy Issues Monitor, an annual flagship survey of what keep energy leaders awake at night and busy during the day.

After months of dialogue across our amazing worldwide energy leadership communities, one clear message is has emerged:

Peace and security are in pole position as the defining uncertainty shaping energy leadership.

Countries everywhere repositioning in the World Energy Trilemma — in real time and under very different constraints.

The global and regional maps support dialogue on deeper insights – revealing both blind-spots and bright-spots about what is working across regions as energy systems transition and electrify.

From Aberdeen I head back to a rapidly electrifying China next week, where the drive to shape energy additions and transitions at home and across other regions continues to reshape the global energy system and leadership landscape.

There too I anticipate the same similar questions to emerge.

Not whether transitions will happen — but how energy systems are being redesigned to manage new trade-offs.

In a fragmented world of many energy games, rebuilding spaces for trusted leadership dialogue matters more than ever.

That is the work the World Energy Council. And I am truly grateful to our persistent, practical and realistically hopeful membership base – a truly inspirational globally inclusive and intergenerational leadership community.

So let me leave you with the question I ended the Prosper lecture with:

Where do you think the world energy system is heading next — and who is stepping up to rebalance priorities and refresh tough trade-offs?

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De-escalating energy conflict must now be the priority, followed swiftly by leadership dialogues focused on rebalancing world energy systems: Dr Angela Wilkinson on CNBC

Sun, 29 Mar 2026 11:24:38 +0000

De-escalating energy conflict must now be the priority: Dr Angela Wilkinson on CNBC | World Energy Council

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“De-escalating energy conflict must now be the priority, followed swiftly by leadership dialogues focused on rebalancing world energy systems”: Dr Angela Wilkinson on CNBC

This interview was originally aired on CNBC’s “Access Middle East” on 27 March 2026.

Our Secretary General and CEO Dr Angela Wilkinson joined CNBC’s Dan Murphy to discuss the energy systems impact of the conflict in the Middle East and how critical dialogues around rebalancing the World Energy Trilemma dimensions are essential after securing de-escalation.

Watch the full interview below:

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Press Release: World Energy Council welcomes the new Chair for the Future Energy Leaders Programme – Thaddeus Anim-Somuah

Sun, 22 Feb 2026 09:27:40 +0000

World Energy Council welcomes the new Chair for the Future Energy Leaders Programme – Thaddeus Anim-Somuah

04 February 2026, London: The World Energy Council is pleased to announce that Mr Thaddeus Anim-Somuah has been elected as Chair for the Future Energy Leaders Programme (FELS) of the World Energy Council. Mr. Anim-Somuah will immediately assume the role from Cristina Morales. Positioned at the intersection of business and impact and a long-serving member of the FELs, Mr. Anim-Somuah is well placed to lead the diverse World Energy Council’s Future Energy Leaders platform. The Future Energy Leaders are a global impact community of exceptional young professionals, working alongside industry experts to share insights and foster collaboration.

A well-respected business advisor and chartered chemical engineer, Mr. Anim-Somuah is a passionate global sustainability leader, named among the 2020 Forbes 30 under 30 Europe cohort and in 2023 as one of the 50 most promising talents (under 35) by the Dutch Financial Times.

Thaddeus Anim-Somuah, incoming Chair for the Future Energy Leaders Programme, World Energy Council, said:

“The Future Energy Leaders programme is a unique platform that brings together exceptional emerging leaders from across the world to tackle the defining energy challenges of our time. I am honoured to serve as Chair of the Future Energy Leaders Board and excited to work with this community to strengthen collaboration, challenge conventional thinking, and translate ambition into action. Together, we can help shape a future energy system that is more resilient, inclusive, and sustainable for all.”

Dr Angela Wilkinson, Secretary General and CEO, World Energy Council, said:

“I am delighted to welcome Thaddeus (Teddy) Anim-Somuah as the new Chair of the World Energy Council’s Future Energy Leaders Programme. Teddy is a globally recognised catalyst for change, driving innovation at the intersection of energy, materials, finance and human behaviour. He will champion our pioneering community of global and national future energy leaders in delivering more and better energy futures for billions of lives and a healthy planet.”

The Future Energy Leaders platform is an integral part of the World Energy Council community, which includes over 3,000 member organisations spanning more than 100 counties. Co-hosted by the World Energy Council and the Ministry of Energy of Saudi Arabia, the 27th edition of World Energy Congress, a flagship event convening global energy leaders to advance clean and inclusive energy transitions, will take place 26-29 October 2026 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

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About the World Energy Council

The World Energy Council is the world’s oldest independent and impartial community of energy leaders and practitioners. Through our Humanising Energy vision, we involve more people and communities in accelerating clean and just energy transitions in all world regions. Formed in 1923, the Council has convened diverse interests from across the full energy ecosystem for a century, and today has over 3,000 member organisations and a presence in nearly 100 countries. Our global network draws from governments, private and state corporations, academia and civil society, as well as current and future energy leaders. We effectively collaborate on impact programmes and inform local, regional and global energy agendas in support of our enduring mission: to promote the sustainable use and supply of energy for the benefit of all people.

Further details at www.worldenergy.org and on LinkedIn and Twitter.

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Blog: Making Energy with Love. Powering Lasting Peace.

Fri, 20 Feb 2026 09:23:58 +0000

Making Energy with Love. Powering Lasting Peace.

The 26th World Energy Congress, in Rotterdam, April, 2024

February 14 is Valentine’s Day in many parts of the world.

Energy has never been a romantic story. And yet it has become a story about balancing the love of power with the power of love.

Despite all the talk about energy security, new technologies and rising prices, energy is a purposeful, people-centric, adaptive system.

It is now a matter of WHEN – not IF – societies will be hit by new energy shocks – and shocks arising from instabilities within new power systems.

This year’s forthcoming World Energy Issues Monitor shows that peace and stability is the number one concern keeping energy leaders awake at night.

Top action priorities — strengthening grids, improving regional connectivity, and deploying flexible storage solutions — signal a shift in attention to the inherent instability and rising systems costs associated with scaling new power systems.

No amount of data, however, can speak for itself. Actionable insights emerge through the process of storytelling, conversation, and exchange of lived experiences. None of which can be digitalized or downloaded.

As the world energy systems leadership community, we can and do, make sense together – learning about what is happening in increasingly diverse regions about the pace, pathways and emerging possibilities of delivering more energy for billions of lives and a healthy planet.

Meeting the moment – a Dunlop moment

A century ago, Daniel Nicol Dunlop founded the World Energy Council with a vision of an associative and equitable world energy system and to secure energy for peace.

The question then: How can the world benefit from the electrification revolution without scarce energy resources becoming a driver of conflict?

By the 1990s, that vision had broadened into associative, equitable AND ecological energy systems, with the rise of global environmental consciousness and a new collaborative imperative of sustainable development.

Today, a global AI-electrification super cycle is underway.

Good progress in closing energy poverty gaps with basic access to electricity contrast with new concerns about underestimated and growing energy deficits in all regions.

Good news about the continued momentum in energy transitions contrasts with headlines about the failure to bend the global emissions curve. Climate change momentum implies overshoot of 1.5oC is inevitable – and hopefully temporary. Mother Nature doesn’t negotiate.

And a return of national energy security interests has triggered a global spiral of mistrust, misunderstanding and mutual hesitation.

Trilemma in Transitions

Energy systems trade-offs evolve, but do not disappear, throughout the processes of energy systems additions, transitions and transformations.

Managing the real and connected challenges of energy security, affordability, and sustainability is not easy, but failing to do so is a recipe for disaster.

Each dimension of the World Energy Trilemma framework is evolving:

Rethinking resilience – a shift from hardening assets to external events to the inherent instability within new power systems.
Recalibrating affordability – with attention to rising systems costs and the investment gap between energy supply/demand cost stack and energy payment stack.
Resetting the access baseline – not a single connection or lightbulb, enabling dignity and economic agency
Reimagining sustainable development – avoiding ecological crises with attention to waste, water and atmospheric carbon removals, and leveraging demand transformation as a lever for reconfiguring supply.

A World Energy Congress year – being and becoming the change we want to see

The Riyadh World Energy Congress, October 12-15th, is a pivotal moment to pull a new vision of associative equitable and ecological world energy systems leadership together under the theme: Inspiring Transformations, Delivering Transitions.

Imagine the moment

You are part of the world energy community, about to step onto a global stage. What’s the one message you want the world to hear? What’s the conversation you want to have? And who needs to be at the table to translate ambitious inspirations into meaningful actions?

Riyadh is where energy heritage and new horizons will combine with realistic hope to shape the future of energy together and for generations to come.

This is the moment – a Dunlop moment – to move the needle from dialogue to delivery, from hesitation into collaboration, from disaster to direction.

The world needs a new kind of global energy leadership.

Wired with love.

Powering lasting peace.

Securing reliable, affordable and productive energy access for billions of better lives and a healthy planet.

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Press Release: World Energy Council and EPRI Welcome H. Delano Roosevelt as Chair of the U.S. Member Committee

Mon, 16 Feb 2026 09:15:34 +0000

World Energy Council and EPRI Welcome H. Delano Roosevelt as Chair of the U.S. Member Committee

London, England and Palo Alto, Calif. (Feb. 9, 2026) – The World Energy Council and EPRI are pleased to announce the appointment of H. Delano Roosevelt as chair of WEC’s U.S. Member Committee.

Roosevelt, grandson of U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, brings decades of leadership experience across public service, international business development, energy, and U.S. Middle East engagement. His appointment comes as World Energy Council-U.S. strengthens its role in advancing U.S. participation in global energy dialogue, including preparations for October’s World Energy Congress in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

The U.S. Member Committee, led by EPRI, brings together individuals, businesses, government, and collaborative organizations. This exchange provides value-oriented dialogue between energy and non-energy stakeholders to share best practices and identify new collaborative opportunities.

As chair of the World Energy Council U.S. Member Committee, Roosevelt will provide strategic leadership to strengthen U.S. engagement across the Council’s global network, amplify U.S. perspectives on energy system reliability, affordability, and innovation, and support collaboration among industry, government, and international partners.

World Energy Council Secretary General and CEO, Dr. Angela Wilkinson, said:

“The World Energy Council community is delighted to welcome Delano as the new chair of our United States Member Committee. With his decades of experience in connecting leadership across sectors and geographies, and especially with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, his appointment comes at a most timely moment in a World Energy Congress year.”

EPRI President and CEO, Arshad Mansoor, said:

“EPRI is pleased to have Delano joining forces with us to lead the Council’s U.S. Member Committee. His extensive background in the energy space, particularly in the Gulf region, and his close engagement with EPRI Gulf, will be instrumental as we collectively work together as part of an affordable, reliable energy future.”

Roosevelt has held senior leadership roles spanning government, industry, and nonprofit organizations. He currently serves as director of International Investor Relations at Ranchland Capital Partners, supporting global investment partnerships and land stewardship initiatives in the United States.

Previously, he spent fifteen years based in Saudi Arabia and the Gulf region, including senior roles in business development and investment. He served as president and CEO of the U.S.-Saudi Business Council and later as president and CEO of the National Council on U.S.-Arab Relations. Earlier in his career, he worked as a major account executive in energy conservation and load management at Southern California Edison in the United States.

Contacts:
EPRI:
Rachel Gantz
Senior Manager of Corporate Media Relations
202-293-7517
rgantz@epri.com

World Energy Council – US Member Committee:
Info@WEC-US.ORG

About EPRI
Founded in 1972, EPRI is the world’s preeminent independent, non-profit energy research and development organization, with offices around the world. EPRI’s trusted experts collaborate with more than 450 companies in 45 countries, driving innovation to ensure the public has clean, safe, reliable, and affordable access to electricity across the globe. Together…shaping the future of energy.®

About World Energy Council
The World Energy Council is the world’s oldest independent and impartial community of energy leaders and practitioners. Through our Humanizing Energy vision, we involve more people and communities in accelerating clean and just energy transitions in all world regions. Formed in 1923, the Council has convened diverse interests from across the full energy ecosystem for a century and today has over 3,000 member organizations and a presence in over 100 countries. Our global network draws from governments, private and state corporations, academia and civil society, as well as current and future energy leaders. We effectively collaborate on impact programmes and inform local, regional and global energy agendas in support of our enduring mission: to promote the sustainable use and supply of energy for the benefit of all people.

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Press Release: GE Vernova is welcomed as a New World Energy Council Patron

Sat, 24 Jan 2026 08:03:51 +0000

GE Vernova is welcomed as a New World Energy Council Patron

22 January 2026, London: The World Energy Council formally welcomes GE Vernova, a purpose-built global energy company that includes Power, Wind, and Electrification segments, as its latest global Patron. GE Vernova joins an exclusive group of leading international organisations committed to catalysing energy transitions around the world.

As a new patron, GE Vernova will gain privileged access to an influential community of energy leaders spanning government, industry, academia, and pioneering start-ups to collaborate, exchange knowledge and forge partnerships that drive real change. Patrons have the opportunity to influence industry discourse and contribute to thought leadership and play a vital role in reinforcing the Council’s mission to build a better energy future for all.

Dr Angela Wilkinson, Secretary General and CEO, World Energy Council, said: “Electrification needs collaboration. GE Vernova brings systemic leadership, sustainable innovation impact and scale – which are essential in our mission to deliver more and better energy solutions for people and planet in all regions.”

GE Vernova Chief Corporate Officer Roger Martella speaking at World Energy Week 2025 in Panama City, Panama.

“GE Vernova is focused every day on meeting our mission to electrify the world to thrive and decarbonize, and we are honored to help support the World Energy Council’s important efforts,” said GE Vernova Chief Corporate Officer Roger Martella. “As the world continues working to meet the significant challenges ahead of us, the World Energy Council’s efforts are critical to driving stronger, faster solutions across the globe to enable prosperity through access to energy.”

With a presence in over 100 countries, the World Energy Council’s national Member Committees, partners, programmes and Future Energy Leaders are driving impact and meeting whole energy system challenges since 1923. Through its convening power, tools, insights, and global events – including the 2026 World Energy Congress – it empowers leaders to learn, collaborate and innovate with confidence.

Learn more about the World Energy Council here: https://www.worldenergy.org/

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About the World Energy Council

Formed in 1923, the Council has convened diverse interests from across the full energy ecosystem for a century, and today has over 3,000 member organisations and a presence in nearly 100 countries. Our global network draws from governments, private and state corporations, academia and civil society, as well as current and future energy leaders.

We effectively collaborate on impact programmes and inform local, regional and global energy agendas in support of our enduring mission: to promote the sustainable use and supply of energy for the benefit of all people. Further details at www.worldenergy.org and on LinkedIn and Twitter.

About GE Vernova

GE Vernova Inc. (NYSE: GEV) is a purpose-built global energy company that includes Power, Wind, and Electrification segments and is supported by its accelerator businesses. Building on over 130 years of experience tackling the world’s challenges, GE Vernova is uniquely positioned to help lead the energy transition by continuing to electrify the world while simultaneously working to decarbonize it. GE Vernova helps customers power economies and deliver electricity that is vital to health, safety, security, and improved quality of life. GE Vernova is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S., with approximately 75,000 employees across approximately 100 countries around the world. Supported by the Company’s purpose, The Energy to Change the World, GE Vernova technology helps deliver a more affordable, reliable, sustainable, and secure energy future.

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Weaving a new and more realistically hopeful global energy narrative

Tue, 06 Jan 2026 07:09:48 +0000

Weaving a new and more realistically hopeful global energy narrative

Speaking at World Energy Week in Panama

This time of the year is, for some, more than a celebration with friends and family: it is also a moment of reflection, regeneration, and resolution.

On reflection, it has been a very busy and productive year for our world energy community, as we continue to grow and strengthen our collective ability to successfully navigate these turbulent, emotional and often fractious times of energy transitions and additions.

Signals of regeneration include our growing network of world energy leadership organisations, better quality community-wide contributions and new commitments to collaborate, lead and learn with others, across increasingly diverse regions.

Our enduring resolution remains: to continue to find new and more effective ways to work together and enable more and better energy for billions of lives and a healthy planet.

We are all living through one of the most disruptive, misunderstood and transformational periods in the history of energy. It is not easy to maintain our independence and promote the voice of reason in a context of increasingly politicized and polarizing energy rhetoric. But it is what we do.

Our position remains clear: there is no universal energy story or system.

There are many energy systems and technology pathways – fuels, power systems, and storage solutions. The fundamental challenge is to avoid ideological prescriptions, engage with complexity, and better coordinate actions by leading together, and learning what is working – or not – across increasingly diverse regions and multiple energy transition and additions pathways.

A stance of humility can be illuminating; technology hype often hides fragilities.

As we try to work out how to move increasingly connected, modern energy societies towards new possibilities – dynamic resilience, circularity and flourishing – many and new ways of collaborating – at pace and with scale – are essential and emerging. Better energy futures are crafted bottom-up and horizontally out, transplanted not replicated, nor contained in top-down roadmaps.

As the world’s only independent, all interests, energy leadership platform and practical energy road building community, the World Energy Council keeps thousands of fingers on the global energy pulse. Together, we noted five signals of change in 2025:

New winds of change are blowing – East and West Renewable power grids and storage are scaling faster than ever – especially in China, India, the Gulf and Latin America. Some other countries are doubling-down fossil fuel securities.
Markets are operating at the edge of volatility Access to and cost of capital, trade friction, fragmented finance are keeping energy leaders awake at night.
Energy and AI – twin engines of prosperity and a concentration of power: From data centres to smart grids, the energy–AI nexus is exposing electrification gaps in every region. The power intensity of data centres is unprecedented. The confluence of power – physical, digital and economic – is keeping many leaders awake at night.
A ‘climate-plus-circularity’ agenda is emerging: Overshoot of 1.5 °C now looks unavoidable, at least temporarily. New sustainability thinking – circularity, adaptation, resilience – is emerging and essential to energy for billions of lives and a healthy planet.
Energy equity fell in every region: Widening gaps in affordability, widespread permitting and licensing delays, are clear signals that social engagement and trust are the real constraints in making progress.

We are living in a world increasingly more defined by disruption rather than stability; and progress pivots on actionable foresights, flexible policies, and sustained, innovative collaboration – not linear planning.

It is this spirit of futurity that infuses the 27th World Energy Congress in Riyadh in October 2026. This is our opportunity to convene power for common good – and it will be a pivotal moment in world energy leadership.

We are striving to apply our unique community-wide, analogue association advantages in a faster paced digital era. Our insights are enriched by collective intelligence – human wisdom and digital data.

And we embrace collaborative innovation and intergenerational leadership as the best ways to enable energy for billions of lives and a healthy planet.

As our founder, Daniel Nicol Dunlop, reminded the world a century ago, our shared purpose is not power itself, but the service of humanity through cooperation.

My sincere and heartfelt thanks to all our friends, colleagues, members, patrons, Officers, Chairs, Future Energy Leaders, Congress sponsors.

The future of energy starts with all of us.

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Navigating Today’s Energy Turbulence for a shared tomorrow: Using the World Energy Council’s Rocks and Rivers Scenarios Foundations to meet demand for more and better energy

Sat, 22 Nov 2025 22:13:43 +0000

Navigating Today’s Energy Turbulence for a shared tomorrow: Using the World Energy Council’s Rocks and Rivers Scenarios Foundations to meet demand for more and better energy

The IEA’s new World Energy Outlook lands at a moment when energy is once again at the centre of geopolitical dialogue and economic risk. As countries contend with mounting security threats, shifting trade relations, growing demand, and intensifying climate change impacts, one message stands out clearly: diversification and cooperation matter more than ever.

We cannot meet the growing demand for energy services — or build systems that are secure, equitable, and sustainable in a world that is warmer, wobblier, and more heat-, waste-, and water-stressed — without collaboration.

At the World Energy Council, we developed our Rocks and Rivers scenario foundations to help make clearer sense of the different types of collaboration being deployed to meet this demand:

Rocks represent the structural constraints and inertia in today’s energy systems — from geopolitical tensions and aging infrastructure to entrenched dependencies and vested interests that can slow or reshape transitions. It represents a world more characteristed by national self-interests and industrial competitiveness.

Rivers symbolise the fluid and emergent dynamics reshaping the future — from new technologies, to social movements, shifting demand patterns, and evolving behaviours that create both disruption and opportunities for new forms of cooperation as the old established international model continues to be strained..

The latest IEA report confirms what our community has long observed; that the world is navigating complex energy transitions – and success depends on understanding how the “rocks” and “rivers” interact .

Dr. Angela Wilkinson, Secretary General & CEO of the World Energy Council, “The world needs connection, coordination, and care.”

In a world thirsty for energy and facing multiplying risks, simple truths remain relevant:

Without trust — between governments and citizens, investors and communities, between regions and generations — it’s not possible to appreciate or change the underlying energy systems on which we all depend. Trust takes time. We’re short of that too. But progress will always move at different paces in different places.

As we connect the insights from the IEA Outlook with our own global scenarios work, we will continue supporting leaders in navigating uncertainty through a shared language, practical foresights, and a grounded understanding of what is really changing.

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Third Italy-US Bilateral Dialogue

Wed, 19 Nov 2025 21:56:08 +0000

Third Italy-US Bilateral Dialogue

Opportunities and Challenges for Italy–US Cooperation on Energy, Security and Emerging Technologies

The third edition of the Bilateral Dialogue on Opportunities and Challenges for Italy–US Cooperation on Energy, Security and Emerging Technologies, organized by WEC Italy and WEC US with the support of the Embassy of Italy in Washington D.C. and in collaboration with the Atlantic Council, took place on October 29–30, 2025, at the Embassy’s headquarters.

Over two days, more than 70 representatives from institutions, think tanks, and leading companies from both countries gathered for a high-level exchange that reaffirmed the Dialogue as a structured platform for energy and industrial diplomacy.

Discussions focused on the key themes of transatlantic relations and Italy’s role in Europe, highlighting shared perspectives on energy security, innovative technological value chains, and global infrastructure development. The second day explored how artificial intelligence is reshaping energy systems, infrastructure, and technology investments.

Once again, the Bilateral Dialogue proved to be a valuable forum for cooperation among institutions, industry, and academia — strengthening the partnership between Italy and the United States in addressing the global challenges of the energy transition and technological innovation

Contact our Italian Member Committee for more information on their international activities.

Participants

The initiative was attended by prominent institutional, business, and academic figures, including:

Marco Peronaci, Ambassador of Italy to the United States
Marco Margheri, Chairman, World Energy Council Italy
Jarrod Agen, Executive Director, National Energy Dominance Council
Stefano Besseghini, Chairman, ARERA
Jovita Neliupsiene, Ambassador of the EU to the United States
Jean Paul Allain, Associate Director for Fusion Energy Sciences, U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science

View the full agenda and read more from our Italian Member Committee.

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