Security of Supply

Electricity demand continues to rise with electrification and industrialization, even as the power sector transitions. It is critical to maintain a secure supply of electricity at all hours of the day and all seasons of the year, while maintaining affordability and reducing emissions. This can be done through analysis and careful planning.

The challenges

How to build out clean energy to replace coal fired power? How to develop a portfolio of solutions, such as demand-side management, energy storage, and transmission infrastructure, to balance supply and dema

The solutions

The creation of incentives and enabling environments via updated electricity regulations, policies, system planning, grid operation, and market design
Policies and financing to increase deployment of wind and solar, energy storage, dispatchable non-emitting sources, like hydropower, transmission interconnection, and demand side management
Grid technologies to keep the electricity network in balance, such as managing voltage, frequency and inertia

The United Kingdom

National Government, Grid Operator

Thanks to strong government policies and investments and innovations in the grid, the UK phased out coal power rapidly while maintaining a secure supply of electricity.

By reducing coal generation from nearly 40% in 2012 to zero in 2024, the UK avoided 880 MtCO2e, equivalent to more than double the UK’s total annual greenhouse gas emissions in 2023. While phasing out coal, the UK’s National Electricity System Operator (NESO) has been working to integrate more renewables into the electricity grid as well as introduce new innovative technologies aimed at keeping Britain’s electricity network in balance, increasing its resilience in the process.

Germany

National Government

Germany’s experience demonstrates that coal phase-out and energy security can go hand in hand.

Despite the expansion of renewables over the last two decades, which provided almost 63% Germany’s electricity last year, households have seen electricity supply disruptions roughly halve over the same time frame to only ten minutes a year, with the country boasting one of the most reliable grids of all industrialised nations.

Morocco

National Government

Thanks to strong political commitment, proactive policy framework and international collaborations, Morocco has become a global leader in renewable energy development, aiming to reduce its reliance on coal power, decrease emissions, improve air quality, enhance energy independence, create new jobs and foster economic growth.

Wind and solar supplied nearly 25% of Morocco’s electricity in 2024, up from 9% in 2015, representing significant progress, given its historical reliance on fossil fuels.

The Philippines

National Government

Thanks to strong policies that have driven an increase in renewable energy capacity, the Philippines is on track to decrease its coal generation for the first time in decades, helping the country reduce its reliance on imported fuels and boost its energy security.

Coal-fired power generation in the Philippines fell in the first half of 2025, putting the country on track for its first annual decline in coal generation in decades. The Philippines has built a pipeline of 99GW of wind and solar projects. In 2024 alone, the Philippines added more than 1 gigawatt (GW) of solar. Solar power is already the cheapest source of electricity generation in the Philippines.