IRENA: The energy transition’s real bottleneck isn’t money, it’s wires

Arab News · RAZAN SALMAN · 2026-11-06 09:48 UTC

IRENA: The energy transition’s real bottleneck isn’t money, it’s wires

ABU DHABI: Ask the world's top renewables official what is slowing the clean energy build-out and he won't name cost or finance. He'll name grids.

Arab News asked Francesco La Camera, director-general of the International Renewable Energy Agency, whether cost, financing or grids stood most in the way of the roughly 1.2 terawatts of renewables the world must add each year. He answered without hesitation.

"The main bottleneck for the speed and scale of the transition is the infrastructure that can sustain the system," he said on the sidelines of ADIPEC in Abu Dhabi. He added that IRENA has been sounding the alarm for seven years.

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