Industry Agenda Global Energy Architecture Performance Index Report 2017

The EAPI 2017 report evaluates 127 countries across three dimensions: economic growth and development, environmental sustainability, and energy access and security. While European nations dominate the top rankings, the report highlights that high performance is possible regardless of economy size or resource endowment. It identifies a growing performance gap between the top 20 countries and the rest of the world, and notes that major energy consumers like China, India, and the US struggle to reach leading positions. The document proposes three governance principles for successful energy transitions: establishing long-term strategic frames, implementing adaptable co-designed policies, and stewarding investment toward impactful areas.

• European countries, particularly the EU28, dominate the EAPI leader board, with 14 of the top 20 highest-performing countries being EU Member States. Their success is attributed to long-term regional coordination, strong infrastructure links, and high scores in market force utilization and energy supply diversity.
• The world's largest energy consumers—including China (95th), India (87th), Japan (45th), the Russian Federation (48th), and the United States (52nd)—consistently underperform relative to the top 20, often slipping in rankings or seeing only marginal gains since 2009.
• A performance divide is widening between the top 20 countries and others; the top 20 achieved twice the average increase in EAPI score compared to all other countries since the previous year, driven largely by improvements in economic growth and development.
• High energy system performance is not exclusive to large or advanced economies. While many top performers are small advanced economies, countries like Paraguay (22nd) and Albania (25th) rank in the top 20% of the EAPI despite having GDPs per capita in the bottom 40% of the cohort.
• The report identifies three core principles for steering energy transitions: framing a long-term direction and committing to it, enabling the transition through adaptable and co-designed policies, and stewarding investment to the most impactful areas.
• Global energy transition progress has been generally slow, with the average country score increasing by less than two basis points over the last five years. However, specific countries like Uruguay, Mexico, and Jamaica have shown significant rank improvements since 2009.
• The International Energy Agency (IEA) estimates that $48 trillion in global investment is required to meet energy needs through 2035.

APA

World Economic Forum (2017). Industry Agenda Global Energy Architecture Performance Index Report 2017. http://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_Energy_Architecture_Performance_Index_2017.pdf

Chicago

World Economic Forum. Industry Agenda Global Energy Architecture Performance Index Report 2017. 2017. http://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_Energy_Architecture_Performance_Index_2017.pdf.

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BibTeX

@techreport{worldeconomicforum2017industry, author = {{World Economic Forum}}, title = {{Industry Agenda Global Energy Architecture Performance Index Report 2017}}, institution = {World Economic Forum}, year = {2017}, url = {http://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_Energy_Architecture_Performance_Index_2017.pdf}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }