Energy transition

How it is used

A key phrase in strategy documents, conferences and news. Countries and companies lead, speed up, finance or manage the energy transition. A just transition is one that also protects the workers and communities that depend on coal and other fossil industries.

Example sentences

1. Grid investment has become the bottleneck of the energy transition.

2. Our strategy explains how the company will finance its part in the energy transition.

Common collocations

• accelerate the energy transition
• just transition
• clean energy transition
• finance the energy transition

Related terms

• decarbonizationReducing the carbon dioxide emissions of an economy, sector or company, for example by switching to renewable power, electrifying heat and transport and improving efficiency.
• renewable energyEnergy from sources that nature replaces all the time, such as sunlight, wind, flowing water, the Earth's heat and organic material, so they do not run out like coal, oil or gas.
• net zeroA state in which the greenhouse gases a country or company puts into the air are balanced by the amount it removes, so that its overall contribution is zero.
• phase outTo stop using something gradually over a planned period, for example coal power, fossil fuel subsidies or inefficient light bulbs.
• energy mixThe combination of energy sources, such as gas, coal, hydro, wind, solar and nuclear, that a country or company uses, usually shown as percentage shares.

More terms: Emissions and Energy Policy

• carbon emissions
• greenhouse gas
• carbon footprint
• carbon price
• emissions trading system
• carbon capture and storage
• energy security
• subsidy