Fostering Effective Energy Transition 2025

Decision-makers face two key questions in the energy transition: what is needed to accelerate improvements in national energy systems, and how can the right enablers be put in place to support these improvements? Answering these questions requires a clear and transparent fact base to help navigate the complexities of the energy transition effectively. The ETI builds on 15 years of country-level benchmarking at the World Economic Forum, offering a data-driven framework to assess the performance and readiness of global energy systems in the transition. Covering 118 countries, the ETI evaluates current energy system performance in terms of security, equity and sustainability, as well as five readiness factors (Figure 1). A country’s final ETI score is a weighted composite of two sub-indices: system performance (60%) and transition readiness (40%). System performance is evenly distributed across equity, security and sustainability dimensions, while transition readiness is divided into two categories: core enablers and enabling factors. Core enablers include regulation and political commitment as well as finance and investment, while enabling factors encompass innovation, infrastructure and education and human capital. ETI framework FIGURE 1 System performance Transition readiness Education and human capitalFinance and investment InfrastructureInnovation SustainabilityEquity SecurityRegulations and political commitment Core enablers Source: World Economic Forum. Fostering Effective Energy Transition 2025 8