2025 Climate Change Survey Results
Global Perspective on Critical Energy & Climate Issues: 2025 IEEE PES Survey Insights
Earlier this year, IEEE Power & Energy Society (PES) commissioned a global survey of nearly 1,000 PES members to explore how power and electrical engineers view the evolving energy landscape in their regions and their role in addressing climate change.
The results indicate that:
KEY INSIGHTS
Reliability and Demand Are Engineers’ Top Concerns
Energy Reliability
Meeting
Growing
Demand
Aging Infrastructure
Climate Change
Greatest Barriers Facing Members’ Countries
in Achieving 2050 Clean Energy Targets
High cost of transitioning to clean energy
Limited energy storage capacity for renewable generation
Political and/or industry resistance to renewable energy transition
SOLUTIONS FOR THE FUTURE
Top Priorities for Engineers to Address Climate Change
Modernizing the grid
Innovating renewable
energy & storage systems
Increasing load efficiency
to reduce overall demand
Most Important Sources in Future Energy Mix
Source: Source: Park Street Strategies Survey, commissioned by IEEE PES, February 2025.
View the full survey results here. [PDF 9.1MB]
KEY INSIGHTS
- Energy reliability and meeting growing demand are engineers’ greatest environmental and energy-related concerns, followed by aging infrastructure and climate change.
- 53% of engineers believe global politics represent the most significant barrier to achieving climate solutions.
- Engineers believe they must focus most on modernizing the grid (63%), advancing renewable energy, storage systems and clean technologies (53%), and improving load efficiency (51%) to reduce overall demand.
- 88% of engineers believe they play an important role in addressing climate change.
- Two in three believe technology will be key to solving the climate crisis.
- Over half say reducing the environmental impacts of climate change is the most significant driver of the clean energy transition in their region.
- 82% believe that countries with more developed economies and energy grids should play a role in supporting nations with fewer resources and less modernization.
- Engineers see solar energy, hydropower, and nuclear energy as the most important sources in the future energy mix.
- Almost half do not believe there are enough funding opportunities for engineers available to address climate change.
Other IEEE Climate Change Resources
View PES Survey Results
[PDF 9.1MB]
View PES Survey Infographic
[PDF 619KB]