Smart grids are an essential element to facilitate this transformation and for achieving energy security, affordable energy and climate change mitigation—the three elements of the “energy trilemma. The WEC-Report highlights the current status og smart grids and best practice examples of successful smart grid development in different countries.

Prognos AG was commissioned by the World Energy Council Germany to compile a study on the significance of international hydropower storage for the energy transition in Germany. A year after the launch of the energy transition, implementation issues have been discussed intensively. In this context, it needed to be clarified […]

A study on behalf of the World Energy Council’s German Member Committee.

The World Energy Council (WEC) expects that transport fuel demand in the next forty years will come mainly from developing countries such as China and India, where demand will grow by 200% to 300%. In contrast, the transport fuel demand for the developed countries will drop by up to 20%, […]

A study on behalf of the World Energy Council’s German Member Committee.

WEC has recently been looking in depth into the question of market development to identify how current markets could evolve into a true EU internal electricity market. Based on the state of play of different European wholesale markets, WEC proposes a roadmap for the development towards a pan-European wholesale market. […]

This study is to examine the infrastructure required to move energy across international boundaries in the types and quantities projected to meet future energy requirements.

WEC has been collecting and analysing power plant performance statistics worldwide for more than 30 years.