Post by World Energy Council

💡 The 2026 World Energy Issues Monitor shows that energy leaders across the world are focused on bolstering the resilience of power grids to prevent blackouts. Across regions, energy systems are changing faster than the foundations built to support them. Energy transitions are still continuing, but their pace is now being shaped by much tighter physical, social and geopolitical limits. Leaders are confronting a clear reality: power system capacity, not ambition, is setting the pace. Grids, permitting, supply chains and workforce availability have become decisive constraints. Visible strains, from congestion, curtailment and negative pricing to delayed connections, reveal that system growth is outpacing the infrastructure needed to integrate it. At the same time, demand pressures are widening. As transport, industry, buildings, digital infrastructure and AI continue to electrify, the pace of demand for electricity will continue to accelerate. The system challenge is no longer only how much energy is needed, but where, when and how concentrated that demand becomes, reshaping risk across networks. Find out more in the full report: worldenergy.org/WEIM26 #energytransition #transmissions #energysystems #powergrids #energyleadership