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IEA: global electricity demand growing faster than renewables, driving strong increase in generation from coal

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JULY 15, 2021

Renewables are expanding quickly but not enough to satisfy a strong rebound in global electricity demand this year, resulting in a sharp rise in the use of coal power that risks pushing carbon dioxide emissions from the electricity sector to record levels next year, according to a new report from the International Energy Agency.

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IEA: global CO2 emissions rebounded to their highest level in history in 2021; largely driven by China

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MARCH 9, 2022

billion tonnes, their highest ever level, as the world economy rebounded strongly from the COVID-19 crisis and relied heavily on coal to power that growth, according to new IEA analysis. Coal accounted for over 40% of the overall growth in global CO 2 emissions in 2021, reaching an all-time high of 15.3 billion tonnes. billion tonnes.

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Emissions Global Coal China

EIA: India’s steel industry dominated by electric-based processes; intensive coal use for DRI

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DECEMBER 9, 2017

India is the third-largest steel producer in the world after China and Japan, having surpassed other large steel-making countries such as the United States, Russia, and South Korea over the previous decade, according to the World Steel Association. coal-based rotary kiln furnaces (mainly in India), accounting for 17.5%

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Coal Industrial Industry India

Utility solar dethrones coal as the cheapest power source in Asia

Baua Electric

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Photo: China News Service Renewable energy costs in Asia last year were 13% cheaper than coal and are expected to be 32% cheaper by 2030, according to a new study. This is significant because it marks a shift toward making renewables increasingly competitive with coal, a mainstay in APAC’s energy mix.

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Asia Coal Solar Power

ICCT LCA study finds only battery and hydrogen fuel-cell EVs have potential to be very low-GHG passenger vehicle pathways

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JULY 21, 2021

In addition to its regional and temporal scope, this study is distinct from earlier LCA literature in four key aspects: This study considers the lifetime average carbon intensity of the fuel and electricity mixes, including biofuels and biogas.

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Hydrogen Fuel Batteries Battery

IEA: global oil demand to decline in 2020 as coronavirus weighs on markets

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MARCH 10, 2020

Global oil demand is expected to decline in 2020 as the impact of the new coronavirus (COVID-19) spreads around the world, constricting travel and broader economic activity, according to the International Energy Agency’s (IEA’s) latest oil market forecast. The impact of the coronavirus on oil markets may be temporary.

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Oil 2020 Global Market

Global Carbon Budget 2022: Global fossil CO2 emissions expected to grow 1.0% in 2022

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NOVEMBER 14, 2022

to 1.9%) in 2022 as the COVID recovery continues amidst turmoil in energy markets. Growth in oil use, particularly aviation, and coal use are behind most of the increase in 2022. Turmoil in energy markets. The turmoil in the global energy markets is affecting the different fossil fuels in different ways. increase in 2021.

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Global Emissions Carbon Coal

BNEF: steel industry set to pivot to hydrogen in green push; additional $278B for clean capacity and retrofits

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DECEMBER 1, 2021

Steel is responsible for around 7% of man-made greenhouse gas emissions every year and is one of the world’s most polluting industries. By 2050, green hydrogen could be the cheapest production method for steel and capture 31% of the market. Retrofit or close any remaining coal-fired capacity by 2050.

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Hydrogen Clean Cleaning Industrial

BNEF, Snam, IGU report finds global gas industry set to resume growth post-pandemic; low-carbon technologies for long-term growth

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AUGUST 7, 2020

After growing by more than 2% in 2019, global gas use is set to fall by around 4% in 2020, as the COVID-19 pandemic reduces energy consumption across the global economies. The report shows that medium-term growth will come from increasing cost-competitiveness and increased global access to gas. Low-carbon gas.

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Gas Global Industrial Industry

Bloomberg NEF forecasts falling battery prices enabling surge in wind and solar to 50% of global generation by 2050

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JUNE 19, 2018

This year’s outlook is the first to highlight the significant impact that falling battery costs will have on the electricity mix over the coming decades. BNEF predicts that lithium-ion battery prices, already down by nearly 80% per megawatt-hour since 2010, will continue to tumble as electric vehicle manufacturing builds up through the 2020s.

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Wind Solar Global Coal

IEA: global energy demand rose by 2.3% in 2018, fastest pace in the last decade; CO2 emissions up 1.7%

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MARCH 26, 2019

Natural gas emerged as the fuel of choice, posting the biggest gains and accounting for 45% of the rise in energy consumption. Gas demand growth was especially strong in the United States and China. Still, that was not fast enough to meet higher electricity demand around the world that also drove up coal use.

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2018 Global Emissions Energy

IEA finds CO2 emissions flat for third straight year even as global economy grew in 2016

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MARCH 18, 2017

This was the result of growing renewable power generation, switches from coal to natural gas, improvements in energy efficiency, as well as structural changes in the global economy. The decline was driven by a surge in shale gas supplies and more attractive renewable power that displaced coal.

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Economy 2016 Global Emissions

IEA: global energy investment stabilized above $1.8T in 2018; security and sustainability concerns growing

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MAY 14, 2019

Global energy investment stabilized in 2018, ending three consecutive years of decline, as capital spending on oil, gas and coal supply bounced back while investment stalled for energy efficiency and renewables, according to the International Energy Agency’s latest annual review.

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2018 Global Energy Coal

IEA: global energy efficiency progress drops to slowest rate since start of decade

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NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Energy efficiency has tremendous potential to boost economic growth and avoid greenhouse gas emissions, but the global rate of progress is slowing, according to a new report by the International Energy Agency. In China and India, primary intensity improved by almost 3%, a slight drop on 2017 levels.

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Global Energy 2018 Coal

BNEF report finds hydrogen promising decarbonization pathway, but carbon prices and emissions policies required

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MARCH 31, 2020

Hydrogen Economy Outlook , a new and independent global study from research firm BloombergNEF (BNEF), finds that clean hydrogen could be deployed in the decades to come to cut up to 34% of global greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuels and industry at a manageable cost. kg in most parts of the world before 2050. MMBtu) in 2050.

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Hydrogen Carbon Emissions Price

1 in 5 new car sales globally were EVs in 2023, and that’s curbed oil demand – IEA

Baua Electric

MARCH 2, 2024

The new findings come from the IEA’s annual update on global energy-related CO2 emissions and the just-released inaugural edition of the IEA’s new series , the Clean Energy Market Monitor, which will track clean energy deployment and broadly outline the implications for global energy markets.

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Global Oil Sale Coal

MIT Report Finds Natural Gas Has Significant Potential to Displace Coal, Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions; Role in Transportation More Limited

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JUNE 26, 2010

Natural gas will play a leading role in reducing greenhouse-gas emissions over the next several decades, largely by replacing older, inefficient coal plants with highly efficient combined-cycle gas generation, according to a major new interim report out from MIT.

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BloombergNEF: solar, wind, batteries to attract $10T to 2050; curbing emissions long-term will require other technologies

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JUNE 19, 2019

Electricity demand is set to increase 62%, resulting in global generating capacity almost tripling between 2018 and 2050. NEO starts by analyzing technology trends and fuel prices to build a least cost view of the changing electricity sector. Asia’s electricity demand will more than double to 2050. This will attract $13.3

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Wind Solar Emissions Batteries

BP Energy Outlook: 30% growth in global demand to 2035; fuel demand continues to rise, even with EVs & fuel efficiency

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JANUARY 25, 2017

The Outlook looks at long-term energy trends and develops projections for world energy markets over the next two decades. Natural gas grows more quickly than either oil or coal over the Outlook, with demand growing an average 1.6% Its share of primary energy overtakes coal to be the second-largest fuel source by 2035.

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Global Fuel Energy Oil

EIA projects world energy use to increase 53% by 2035; oil sands/bitumen and biofuels account for 70% of the increase in unconventional liquid fuels

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

Worldwide energy consumption will grow by 53% between 2008 and 2035 with much of the increase driven by strong economic growth in the developing nations, especially China and India, according to the reference case in the newly released International Energy Outlook 2011 (IEO2011) from the US Energy Information Administration (EIA).

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Oil-Sands Oil 2008 Oil Prices

IEA WEO-2012 finds major shift in global energy balance but not onto a more sustainable path; identifies potential for transformative shift in global energy efficiency

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NOVEMBER 12, 2012

The WEO finds that the extraordinary growth in oil and natural gas output in the United States will mean a sea-change in global energy flows. In the New Policies Scenario, the WEO ’s central scenario, the United States becomes a net exporter of natural gas by 2020 and is almost self-sufficient in energy, in net terms, by 2035.

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Global 2012 Energy Oil

ExxonMobil: global GDP up ~140% by 2040, but energy demand ~35% due to efficiency; LDV energy demand to rise only slightly despite doubling parc

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DECEMBER 10, 2014

ExxonMobil focused particularly on three groups of countries in projecting future energy trends: China and India, which are expected to account for half the growth in global energy demand because these two developing economies will lead the world in terms of population size and the pace of growth in standards of living.

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Energy Global 2010 Oil-Sands

Perspective: Despite Solyndra’s death, the future of solar energy is sunny

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NOVEMBER 10, 2011

I believe that the loss of industry players Solyndra, Evergreen, and SpectraWatt opens the market for more innovative solar companies to succeed with smarter tactics and mainstream products that fit into existing manufacturing models. Lower prices open markets that were previously barred economically.

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Solar Future Energy New Jersey

The Dirty Truth of Petrol & Diesel Vehicles

Plug In India

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

By PluginIndia In this article and video, we show the real truth on how Petrol and Diesel vehicles cause far more air pollution compared to electric vehicles. The India specific version is researched and created by PluginIndia. Pumpjacks don’t run by themselves, in most cases they use electricity.

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Petrol Diesel Vehicles Oil

EIA 2035 reference case projects drop in US imports of petroleum due to modest economic growth, increased efficiency, growing domestic oil production, and biofuels

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JANUARY 23, 2012

EIA’s AEO2012 projects a continued decline in US imports of liquid fuels due to increased production of gas liquids and biofuels and greater fuel efficiency. The US Energy Information Administration (EIA) released its Reference case projections for US energy markets through 2035. Source: EIA. Click to enlarge.

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Oil 2005 Production 2010

To Store or Not to Store: That is the Question

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JULY 20, 2011

However, when peak demand is not required the inefficiencies of idling coal, nuclear and gas powered power plants has become both very uneconomic and non-responsive to changes in demand for today’s market. Supplementing baseload coal-, nuclear- and gas-powered power pants in a grid strategy for tomorrow.

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Store Grid Energy Storage Wind

Fossil Fuel Production Up in 2008 Despite Recession

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OCTOBER 17, 2009

World production of fossil fuels—oil, coal, and natural gas—increased 2.9% In the first half of the year, producers strained to meet global demand, but when the recession took hold later in the year the market was swamped by excess supply. Coal has led the growth in fossil fuel production. Total gas production grew 3.8%

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2008 Oil-Sands Production Fuel

Obama climate plan calls for new fuel economy standards for heavy-duty vehicles post-2018; cleaner fuels and investment in advanced fossil energy

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JUNE 25, 2013

President Obama’s plan, which sidesteps the need for Congressional involvement by relying on a wide variety of executive actions, has three main components: Reducing greenhouse gas emissions in the US. Reducing greenhouse gas emissions in the US. of greenhouse gas emissions to 3% by 2020. Other efforts will include: Natural Gas.

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Obama Cleaner Climate Fuel Economy

IEA: carbon intensity of global energy supply has barely changed in last 20 years; “window of opportunity in transport”

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APRIL 18, 2013

The IEA said that this reflects the continued domination of fossil fuels—particularly coal—in the energy mix and the slow uptake of other, lower-carbon supply technologies. In 2012, sales of hybrid-electric vehicles passed the one million mark. In 1990 the underlying carbon intensity of supply was 57.1 tCO 2 /TJ (2.39

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Carbon Supplies Global Transportation

MIT and IEA reports take different views of the future of natural gas in transportation

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JUNE 10, 2011

MIT and the IEA both have newly released reports exploring the potential for and impact of a major expansion in global usage of natural gas, given the current re-evaluation of global supplies. The IEA takes a more conventional approach, assessing the impact on the penetration of vehicles burning gas as their fuel. Earlier post.)

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MIT Gas Transportation Future

ExxonMobil Outlook: 35% growth in energy demand by 2040; hybrids to account for ~50% of new vehicle sales

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DECEMBER 15, 2013

ExxonMobil projects that meeting future energy demand will be supported by more efficient energy-saving practices and technologies; increased use of less-carbon-intensive fuels such as natural gas, nuclear and renewables; as well as the continued development of technology advances to develop new energy sources. Energy-related CO 2 emissions.

Oil-Sands

Oil-Sands Energy Hybrid Sale

Wärtsilä report finds accelerated adoption of renewables can reduce electricity production costs by up to 50%

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OCTOBER 11, 2021

The Front-Loading Net Zero report states that electricity production costs could be reduced by up to 50% by 2050 if countries and states adopt 100% renewable systems faster than currently planned. The report says that carbon neutral systems can provide cheaper electricity compared to current fossil-fuel-based systems.

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Renewable Energy Storage Coal Production

Separate MIT, IEA reports both outline major expansion in role of natural gas; caution on climate benefits

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JUNE 10, 2011

World primary energy demand by fuel in the IEA high gas scenario. Separately, the International Energy Agency (IEA) released its own report exploring the potential for a “golden age” of gas. Both reports also emphasized that although natural gas is the lowest carbon fossil fuel, it is still a fossil fuel. Source: IEA.

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MIT Gas Climate Gas-Electric

Green Hydrogen Cars: How They are Different?

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APRIL 18, 2022

When most of us consider ways to reduce carbon emissions in the transportation sector, we immediately think of electric cars or vehicles in general, and in that case, we are right to a greater extent. As we have quoted several times electric cars are great but battery-operated electric cars have a few disadvantages as well.

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Hydrogen Green Cars India

EIA Energy Outlook 2011 more than doubles estimates of US shale gas resources; higher production at lower prices

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DECEMBER 17, 2010

Shale gas offsets declines in other US supply to meet. The Annual Energy Outlook 2011 (AEO2011) Reference case released yesterday by the US Energy Information Administration (EIA) more than doubles the technically recoverable US shale gas resources assumed in AEO2010 and added new shale oil resources. Source: EIA. Click to enlarge.

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Gas 2011 Price Energy

EIA Energy Outlook 2013 reference case sees drop in fossil fuel consumption as use of petroleum-based liquid fuels falls; projects 20% higher sales of hybrids and PHEVs than AEO2012

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DECEMBER 5, 2012

Sales of battery-powered electric vehicles are 65% lower in the AEO2013 Reference case than the year before, with annual sales in 2035 estimated to be about 119,000. Reductions in battery electric vehicles are offset by increased sales of hybrid and plug-in hybrid vehicles, which grow to about 1.3 million, or less than one-half the 2.9

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Fuel Energy Sale 2013

IEA: improving efficiency of road-freight transport critical to reduce oil-demand growth; three areas of focus

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JULY 3, 2017

This growth is expected to lead to a significant increase in carbon dioxide emissions of nearly 900 million tonnes through 2050, or about the same level of emissions growth as from coal use in the power and the entire industry sector combined. Modern Truck Scenario.

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Oil Transportation Alternative Fuels Fuel Economy

BP outlook: Energy demand grows as fuel mix continues to diversify; EVs in global car parc at 15% by 2040, but electric share of VMT at 30%

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FEBRUARY 21, 2018

The global energy mix is the most diverse the world has ever seen by 2040, with oil, gas, coal and non-fossil fuels each contributing around a quarter. Natural gas demand grows strongly and overtakes coal as the second largest source of energy. Oil and gas together account for over half of the world’s energy.

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Global Energy Coal Fuel

Electric Scooter vs Petrol Scooter : Huge benefits for India

Plug In India

APRIL 14, 2021

By Kamlesh & Atul There is a lot of misinformation in the mainstream media about the benefits of electric vehicles. In the blog/video, we bust many myths and we show how electric scooters offer huge social and societal benefits for India. An electric scooter is fantastic for the air quality of our cities.

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Petrol India Electric Electrical

US EIA Projects World Energy Use to Grow 44% Between 2006 and 2030, CO2 Emissions Up by 39%

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MAY 27, 2009

World marketed energy consumption is projected to grow by 44% between 2006 and 2030, driven by strong long-term economic growth in the developing nations of the world, according to the reference case projection from the International Energy Outlook 2009 ( IEO2009 ) released today by the US Energy Information Administration (EIA).

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2006 Emissions Energy Oil-Sands

IEA: global carbon dioxide emissions have rebounded strongly

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MARCH 3, 2021

In India, emissions rose above 2019 levels from September as economic activity improved and restrictions were relaxed. This was the result of accelerating economic activity as well as the combination of higher natural gas prices and colder weather favoring an increase in coal use.

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Emissions Global Carbon 2020

EIA projects world liquid fuels use to rise 38% by 2040, driven by growth in Asia and Middle East; transportation 92% of demand

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

Other liquids refer to natural gas plant liquids (NGPL), biofuels (including biomass-to-liquids [BTL]), gas-to-liquids (GTL), coal-to-liquids (CTL), kerogen (i.e., Consumption of liquid fuels in the other sectors (residential, commercial, and electric power) decreases over the projection period.

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Asia Transportation Oil-Sands Oil Prices

IEA World Energy Outlook 2013 sees CO2 emissions rising by 20% to 2035; oil use on upward trend

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NOVEMBER 13, 2013

China is about to become the largest oil-importing country and India becomes the largest importer of coal by the early 2020s. The shift in global energy demand to Asia gathers speed, but India and countries in Southeast Asia will take the lead in driving consumption higher. Oil use grows, but in a narrowing set of markets.

Oil

Oil 2013 Energy Emissions

ExxonMobil Outlook projects hybrids and advanced vehicles to account for nearly 50% of cars globally by 2040; fuel demand for for personal vehicles to peak and decline, while commercial transportation demand rises 70%

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DECEMBER 11, 2011

Growth is led by developing regions such as China, India, Africa and other emerging economies. Globally, ExxonMobil expects to see growth in plug-in hybrids and electric vehicles, along with compressed natural gas (CNG) and liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) powered vehicles. L/100 km) by 2040.

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Personal Global Transportation Fuel

IEA: global electricity demand growing faster than renewables, driving strong increase in generation from coal

IEA: global CO2 emissions rebounded to their highest level in history in 2021; largely driven by China

EIA: India’s steel industry dominated by electric-based processes; intensive coal use for DRI

Utility solar dethrones coal as the cheapest power source in Asia

ICCT LCA study finds only battery and hydrogen fuel-cell EVs have potential to be very low-GHG passenger vehicle pathways

IEA: global oil demand to decline in 2020 as coronavirus weighs on markets

Global Carbon Budget 2022: Global fossil CO2 emissions expected to grow 1.0% in 2022

BNEF: steel industry set to pivot to hydrogen in green push; additional $278B for clean capacity and retrofits

BNEF, Snam, IGU report finds global gas industry set to resume growth post-pandemic; low-carbon technologies for long-term growth

Bloomberg NEF forecasts falling battery prices enabling surge in wind and solar to 50% of global generation by 2050

IEA: global energy demand rose by 2.3% in 2018, fastest pace in the last decade; CO2 emissions up 1.7%

IEA finds CO2 emissions flat for third straight year even as global economy grew in 2016

IEA: global energy investment stabilized above $1.8T in 2018; security and sustainability concerns growing

IEA: global energy efficiency progress drops to slowest rate since start of decade

BNEF report finds hydrogen promising decarbonization pathway, but carbon prices and emissions policies required

1 in 5 new car sales globally were EVs in 2023, and that’s curbed oil demand – IEA

MIT Report Finds Natural Gas Has Significant Potential to Displace Coal, Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions; Role in Transportation More Limited

BloombergNEF: solar, wind, batteries to attract $10T to 2050; curbing emissions long-term will require other technologies

BP Energy Outlook: 30% growth in global demand to 2035; fuel demand continues to rise, even with EVs & fuel efficiency

EIA projects world energy use to increase 53% by 2035; oil sands/bitumen and biofuels account for 70% of the increase in unconventional liquid fuels

IEA WEO-2012 finds major shift in global energy balance but not onto a more sustainable path; identifies potential for transformative shift in global energy efficiency

ExxonMobil: global GDP up ~140% by 2040, but energy demand ~35% due to efficiency; LDV energy demand to rise only slightly despite doubling parc

Perspective: Despite Solyndra’s death, the future of solar energy is sunny

The Dirty Truth of Petrol & Diesel Vehicles

EIA 2035 reference case projects drop in US imports of petroleum due to modest economic growth, increased efficiency, growing domestic oil production, and biofuels

To Store or Not to Store: That is the Question

Fossil Fuel Production Up in 2008 Despite Recession

Obama climate plan calls for new fuel economy standards for heavy-duty vehicles post-2018; cleaner fuels and investment in advanced fossil energy

IEA: carbon intensity of global energy supply has barely changed in last 20 years; “window of opportunity in transport”

MIT and IEA reports take different views of the future of natural gas in transportation

ExxonMobil Outlook: 35% growth in energy demand by 2040; hybrids to account for ~50% of new vehicle sales

Wärtsilä report finds accelerated adoption of renewables can reduce electricity production costs by up to 50%

Separate MIT, IEA reports both outline major expansion in role of natural gas; caution on climate benefits

Green Hydrogen Cars: How They are Different?

EIA Energy Outlook 2011 more than doubles estimates of US shale gas resources; higher production at lower prices

EIA Energy Outlook 2013 reference case sees drop in fossil fuel consumption as use of petroleum-based liquid fuels falls; projects 20% higher sales of hybrids and PHEVs than AEO2012

IEA: improving efficiency of road-freight transport critical to reduce oil-demand growth; three areas of focus

BP outlook: Energy demand grows as fuel mix continues to diversify; EVs in global car parc at 15% by 2040, but electric share of VMT at 30%

Electric Scooter vs Petrol Scooter : Huge benefits for India

US EIA Projects World Energy Use to Grow 44% Between 2006 and 2030, CO2 Emissions Up by 39%

IEA: global carbon dioxide emissions have rebounded strongly

EIA projects world liquid fuels use to rise 38% by 2040, driven by growth in Asia and Middle East; transportation 92% of demand

IEA World Energy Outlook 2013 sees CO2 emissions rising by 20% to 2035; oil use on upward trend

ExxonMobil Outlook projects hybrids and advanced vehicles to account for nearly 50% of cars globally by 2040; fuel demand for for personal vehicles to peak and decline, while commercial transportation demand rises 70%

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