The electrified share of final energy

Assembled from 31 blocks · 2 evidence · 18 related

1. Story
2. The number that decides what the phrase "energy transition" can mean. Electricity is not energy; it is one carrier among several, and on the accounting used by the International Energy Agency it supplies only about a fifth of world total final energy consumption. The rest is delivered as combustion at the point of use: petrol and diesel in vehicles, gas and oil in boilers and furnaces, coal and coke in blast furnaces, kerosene in aircraft, heavy fuel oil and marine gasoil in ships. This is why the two most commonly quoted transition statistics can both be true and point in opposite directions. Renewables now supply a large and rapidly growing share of *electricity generation*, and in several national grids more than half of it. The same renewables supply a far smaller share of *final energy*, because four fifths of final energy never passes through a wire. The transition therefore has two distinct halves — decarbonising the electricity that exists, and moving energy services that are not electric onto electricity at all — and only the first is going quickly. Every sector object in this Journey is an answer to the second question. Not a place.
3. Knowledge
4. The electrified share of final energy
5. Heavy industry (steel, cement and chemicals)
6. Aviation
7. International shipping
8. Connections
9. Heavy industry (steel, cement and chemicals)
10. Aviation
11. International shipping
12. The electric heat pump
13. The Paris Agreement is adopted at COP21
14. The Paris Agreement enters into force
15. The first calendar year above 1.5 °C above pre-industrial
16. United States withdrawal from the Paris Agreement takes effect
17. The electrified share of final energy
18. Process emissions from calcination
19. Hydrogen direct reduction of iron
20. HYBRIT delivers the first hydrogen-reduced steel
21. The electrified share of final energy
22. Gravimetric energy density as a transport constraint
23. Sustainable aviation fuel
24. The European Union sustainable aviation fuel blending obligation begins
25. The electrified share of final energy
26. International Maritime Organization
27. The IMO adopts its revised greenhouse gas strategy
28. Negotiation of the IMO Net-Zero Framework
29. Evidence
30. The reference source for world energy balances, final energy consumption by carrier, generation mix, technology cost trends and scenario pathways used throughout this pack. V55 verification basis: no edition was retrieved in this session — iea.org was refused by the network egress proxy — so every figure attributed to this series is stated as a magnitude with the specific gap named on the citing record, and no current-year quantity should be presented to a reader without confirmation against a named edition.
31. Supports the sectoral emission structure used throughout this pack, the treatment of industry process emissions as distinct from energy emissions, the assessment of technology cost declines in solar, wind and storage, and the identification of aviation, shipping and heavy industry as hard-to-abate. V55 verification basis: not retrieved in this session; no chapter, table or page number is cited because none could be confirmed, and every sectoral share attributed here is given as a range rather than a figure.