New
Energy
Outlook
2025

New
Energy
Outlook
2025

The New Energy Outlook presents BloombergNEF’s long-term energy and climate scenarios for the transition to a low-carbon economy. Anchored in real-world sector and country transitions, it provides an independent set of credible scenarios covering electricity, industry, buildings and transport, and the key drivers shaping these sectors until 2050.

The 2025 edition presents a new, updated base-case scenario and a deep dive into key trends affecting the energy transition in the next 10 years to support corporations, financial institutions and policymakers navigating the energy transition. This edition includes analysis on data-center power demand, changed policy assumptions in some key geographic areas, and updated cost estimates for both clean and fossil energy.

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NEO 2025 Executive Summary

Investors and businesses navigating the energy transition face rising complexity and uncertainty against a backdrop of elevated policy risk and geopolitical tension. Yet key clean energy technologies continue to enjoy strong fundamentals, with favorable economics and rising technology maturity driving adoption in diverse geographies across the globe. At the same time, accelerated power demand growth from rising adoption of artificial intelligence presents both a challenge and an opportunity.

Strong fundamentals underpin growth in renewables and EVs 

Oil and coal face decline, though the speed is uncertain   

Oil demand in the report’s base-case ‘Economic Transition Scenario’ peaks in 2032 at 104 million barrels per day, with road fuel peaking a few years earlier. Demand ultimately drops to 88 million barrels per day by 2050 – a significant decline from today, but far from the drop required to get on track for net zero. Outside of road transport, oil consumption remains resilient, with a doubling of demand for aviation and strong growth in petrochemicals through 2050.

Coal demand in the Economic Transition Scenario falls rapidly as cost-competitive renewables and gas displace its use in the power sector. Natural gas is the only fuel that sees long-term growth. Global demand increases 25% from 2024 to 2050, reaching 5,449 billion cubic meters due to lower long-term fuel price expectations and higher electricity demand from data centers.

The base-case outlook contrasts sharply with the Net Zero Scenario from 2024, which sees gas demand dropping steeply in the near term and roughly halving by mid-century. There are thus highly divergent futures possible for natural gas, and its role in the energy transition will look very different depending on which kind of transition trajectory is in play in a given region.

Fossil-fuel demand by sector, Economic Transition Scenario
Chart displaying fossil-fuel demand by sector, Economic Transition Scenario

Source: BloombergNEF. Note: ‘NZS 2024’ is the Net Zero Scenario from NEO 2024. Megatons are metric and assume a 6,000kcal/kilogram energy content. ‘b.’ refers to buildings. We have revised upward historical oil demand in NEO 2025 compared to NEO 2024 scenarios, as we now account more accurately for oil use for non-energy purposes outside the petrochemical industry.

Global emissions set to begin their long descent 

Energy-related CO2 emissions have risen globally in most years since the 1950s, but clean energy additions appear finally to have caught up with energy-demand growth. Our modeling indicates that 2024 may have been the peak year for emissions, meaning that 2025 could be the first year of structural emissions decline (excepting unusual years such as 2020 or 2009). While many individual advanced economies have already seen structural emissions declines induced by the growth of clean energy, this would be the first time such a moment has been observed at the global level.  

CO2 emissions reductions from fuel combustion by measures adopted, Economic Transition Scenario versus ‘no-transition’ scenario and Net Zero Scenario 
chart

Source: BloombergNEF. Note: The ‘no transition’ scenario is a hypothetical counterfactual that models no further improvement in decarbonization and energy efficiency. In power and transport, it assumes that the future fuel mix does not evolve from 2023 (2027 in shipping). ‘Clean power’ includes renewables and nuclear, and excludes carbon capture and storage (CCS), hydrogen and bioenergy, which are allocated to their respective categories. ‘Energy efficiency’ includes demand-side efficiency gains. ‘NZS 2024’ is the Net Zero Scenario from NEO 2024. 

David Hostert
Head of Economics & Modeling, Lead author

Matthias Kimmel
Head of Energy Economics

Dr. Ian Berryman
Lead Energy Systems Modeler

Kostas Pegios
Energy Systems Modelling

Rodrigo Quintero
Energy Economics

Seohee Song
Energy Economics

Anushka Verma
Energy Economics

Amar Vasdev
Energy Economics

Co-authors

Jenny Chase
Renewables

Albert Cheung
Deputy CEO

Brynne Merkley,
NDCs

Jinghong Lyu
Data Centers

With support from

Meredith Annex
Clean Power

Tushna Antia
Australia

Adithya Bhashyam
Hydrogen

Allen Tom Abraham
Industry

Natalia Castilhos Rypl
Latin America

Emma Champion
Europe

Abdullah Alkattan
Middle East

Felicia Aminoff
Grids

David Doherty
Oil

Ryan Fisher
Electric Vehicle Charging

Forbes Chanthorn
Southeast Asia

Caroline Chua
Australia

Chris Gadomski
Nuclear

Philip Geurts
Oil

Andrew Grant
Electric Vehicles

Lara Hayim
Solar

Dr. Ali Izadi-Najafabadi
Asia-Pacific

Shantanu Jaiswal
India and Southeast Asia

David Kang
Japan

Mark Daly
Data centers

Nannan Kou
China

Mbongeni Dube
Europe 

Laura Foroni
Power data

Enrique Gonzales
Gas

Sofia Maia
Power data

Fauziah Marzuki
Gas

Colin McKerracher
Transport

Oliver Metcalfe
Wind

Tara Narayanan
US

Vinicius Nunes
Latin America

Rose Oates
Renewable Fuels

Sofia Perelli-Rocco
Heat Pumps

Hanh Phan
Vietnam

Leonard Quong
Australia

Abhishek Rohatgi
Gas

Luxi Hong
Petrochemicals

Dr. Tom Rowlands-Rees
Americas

Kesavarthiniy Savarimuthu
Europe

Kamala Schelling
Editorial

Felix Kosasih
Southeast Asia

Yayoi Sekine
Batteries

Ashish Sethia
Commodities

Siddarth Shetty
India

Sahaj Sood
Asia-Pacific

Analeigh Suh
South Korea

Sisi Tang
Petrochemicals

Helen Kou
Data centers

Claudio Lubis
Aviation

Mohith Velamala
Shipping

Nelson Nsitem 
Batteries

Aleksandra O’Donovan 
Electric vehicles

Shige Ogawa 
Japan

Umer Sadiq 
Japan

Iryna Sereda
Gas

Dr. Nikolas Soulopoulos
Commercial transport

Daisy Robinson
Renewable Fuels

William Young
Strategy

Kokona Ota
Japan

Kate Power
Europe

Daisy Robinson
Renewable Fuels

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