The world is experiencing declining per capita affordable supply of essential resources like diesel, copper, and platinum, largely due to persistently low prices that disincentivize new production and ...

Global oil consumption reached an all-time high in 2024, driven primarily by non-OECD countries, with the U.S. remaining the largest consumer. The U.S. continues to lead the world in total oil ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Robert Rapier is a chemical engineer covering the energy sector. NOCHTEN, GERMANY - APRIL 30: In this aerial view the Boxberg coal ...

Figure 1. World energy consumption per capita from 1965 through 2024, based on data of the 2025 Statistical Review of World Energy, published by the Energy Institute, with fitted trend lines. The dips ...

The rise of artificial intelligence is igniting more than just innovation—it's triggering a dramatic spike in world energy use. A groundbreaking report by the International Energy Agency (IEA) says ...

The Energy Institute (EI), in partnership with Kearney and KPMG, released the 74th edition of the Statistical Review of World Energy, providing a comprehensive overview of global energy data for 2024.

IEA figures show the world adding more than 600GW of new renewable capacity in 2024. The world added more than 550GW of new solar in 2024, although renewable power continues to account for a fraction ...

Energy wastage remains among the most critical shortcomings of humanity in the fight against economic inefficiency and global warming. RMI informs us that two-thirds of all the world's energy is ...

Despite the urgency to cut greenhouse gas emissions as climate change bears down on the globe, fossil fuel use is not likely to change much in the coming decades. Though renewable energy will grow ...

We are at a time when there seems to be far more conflict than in the past. At least part of the problem is that slowing growth in the world economy is making it more difficult to repay debt with ...