Climate variability and long-term climate change are increasingly shaping the performance and reliability of renewable energy systems worldwide, according to the WMO–IRENA Climate-driven Global Renewable Energy Resources and Energy Demand Review: 2024 Year in Review, released by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA).
The 16th session of the IRENA Assembly has concluded. The record participation of over 1500 ministers, government officials, CEOs and partners from across the world confirmed IRENA is at the center of the global energy discourse.
Climate variability and long-term climate change are increasingly shaping the performance and reliability of renewable energy systems worldwide, according to the WMO–IRENA Climate-driven Global Renewable Energy Resources and Energy Demand Review: 2024 Year in Review, released by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA).
This 2024 Year in Review, issued by the World Meteorological Organization in collaboration with IRENA, highlights growing impacts of climate extremes on clean power systems.
This twelfth edition of IRENA’s Renewable energy and jobs: Annual review, produced in collaboration with the International Labour Organization (ILO), provides the latest data and estimates of renewable energy employment globally.
This report explores how auction design can allow for contractual arrangements where risks are shared more equitably, and where objectives beyond price and project realisation are also prioritised.
This report addresses the benefits of large-scale solar photovoltaic plants for the local environment and biodiversity, and recommends actions to mitigate potential negative impacts.
This report identifies 40 innovations that policymakers can leverage to achieve resilient power systems that expand energy access and drive inclusive sustainable development.
This report evaluates daily, weekly and monthly power system flexibility needs at the global and regional levels, and for different decarbonisation scenarios for the years 2030 and 2050.
This report aims to contribute to a better understanding of the various visions for a just energy transition, and proposes a working definition that can serve as a foundation to inform policy making.
This assessment, developed by IRENA in partnership with the Ministry of Water and Energy, presents key recommendations to advance and accelerate the energy transition in Chad.
This publication presents statistics for the decade 2015-2024 in trilingual tables, covering off-grid power capacity, biogas production and numbers of people using off-grid power and biogas for cooking and lighting.
Governments are facing a difficult task of bringing the health emergency under control while introducing major stimulus and recovery measures. The crisis has exposed deeply embedded vulnerabilities ...