In September 2015, 193 world leaders agreed to 17 Global Goals for Sustainable Development. If these Goals are completed, it would mean an end to extreme poverty, inequality and climate change by 2030.
Goal 5: Achieve gender equality and empower women and girls.

• The Asia Pacific region could see $1.5 trillion worth of investments in the power generation sector over the next decade with hydrocarbons, mainly coal and gas, accounting for $500bn.
• Natural gas burn for electricity could decline 2% year over year in 2021 while coal generation picks up 6% - at the conservative end of his forecast.
• Coal's share of electricity generation will tick up to 22% in 2021 from 18% in 2020 while natural gas-fired power's share will decline to 35% from 40%.
• Natural gas is expected to be the dominant fossil fuel source for power generation over the next 20 years or so.
• NGOs' policy demand of phasing out coal by 2030 will mostly be implemented: In electricity generation, renewables and the carbon price drive the quick phase-out in almost all Member States by 2030.
• Beyond 2020, China's gas demand is expected to be driven by the industrial sector and a policy-driven expansion of gas-fired power generation to reduce air pollution.
• Accelerating renewables deployment in the UK to 65% of generation by 2030, compared to 50%, would not materially change costs for consumers in the short or the long run.
• Manufacturers are expected to roll out the next generation of collision avoidance and lane-keeping technologies in new car models in 2021.
• EIA expects coal-fired electricity generation to reclaim a small portion of generation share in 2021, averaging 22% for the year, less than natural gas but more than nuclear and on par with renewables.
• EIA expects coal to drop from providing the second-largest share of the U.S. electricity generation mix in 2019 to the fourth-largest share in 2020, displaced by both nuclear and renewable generation.
• UK manufacturers are expected to roll out the next generation of collision-avoidance and lane-keeping technology in new car models in 2021.
• The power sector will spend $3.2 billion on software in 2020 to optimize the performance, costs and revenues of generation and grid assets.
• Britain has set a target of reaching net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, the first among the major G7 countries to set such a goal, which will involve huge changes, including increasing renewable electricity generation.
• With Millennials and Gen Z set to become the largest segment of consumers in the U.S. by 2024, now is the time for new entrants to solidify their presence and engage customers without the baggage of traditional banks.
• Turkey's skyrocketing total emissions are almost proportional to the change in coal-fired power generation: Total emissions increase by 1049 Mton (from 359 Mton in 2017 to 1408 Mton in 2052), of which 49.5% comes from increased coal-fired power generation.
• In the case of France the proposal to reduce the share of nuclear generation from currently 75% to 50% by 2035 has been applied.
• Unlike most of the power sector, renewable generation has shown a degree of immunity to the Covid-19 crisis, with wind and solar expected to grow in 2020.
• CO2 captured from cement production and power generation jointly account for almost 80% of the reduced CCUS deployment by 2040 in the Reduced Innovation Case compared to the Sustainable Development Scenario.
• The use of natural gas for power generation, once hailed as a cleaner, cheaper alternative to coal, is now projected to drop to 36% in 2021 from 41% in 2020.
• Even with renewables meeting 80% of Texas's annual electricity demand in 2030 - and more than twice its peak demand in installed wind and solar capacity - Texas would still require enough dispatchable generation to meet well over half of its peak demand.
• If Texas were to derive 50% of its annual electricity from wind and solar by 2030, it would still require almost as much dispatchable generation capacity to meet peak demand as it does now with 20%.
• ITU-R will begin work on 6G next year and, noting the increasingly short development cycle for each new generation, forecasts initial commercial rollouts in 2028 and possible mass commercialization in 2030.
• In the short term (up to the mid-2020s), natural gas will contribute about half of Hong Kong's electricity generation whereas coal will drop to about 25%.

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Last updated: 27 September 2020