New report urges IEA to turn away from energy transition focus

30/1/2025 7:23

The International Energy Agency needs to revamp how it writes its annual energy outlook to reflect real-world scenarios, not to bolster its current focus on the global energy transition, according to a report released on Wednesday by the agency's former oil director.



The report, named Energy Delusions, was written by former IEA oil director Neil Atkinson and Mark Mills, Director of the National Center for Energy Analytics, a think tank. The authors said it is aimed at influencing the new administration of U.S. President Donald Trump.



The Paris-based IEA has provided research and data to industrialized governments for more than half a century to guide policy on energy security, supply and investment.



However, its focus on a clean energy transition away from the use climate-warming fossil fuels clashes with Trump's agenda of boosting the traditional oil and gas industries. The agency has also angered other global oil producer countries including Saudi Arabia.