There is no energy transition — only addition, experts say at Baku Energy Week

EuroNews · 🇫🇷 public France · Jun 04, 2026 · 463 words · By Saida Rustamova; Nadira Tudor

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Grid infrastructure emerged as the forum's defining bottleneck on the last day of Baku Energy Week, as the IGU's chief of staff said that global consumption of oil, gas, coal and renewables is rising simultaneously, directly challenging the conventional…

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Why it matters

The world is consuming more oil, gas, coal and renewables than ever before, the International Gas Union's chief of staff told the final day of Baku Energy Week, challenging the conventional understanding of energy transition.

Common ground

"There is not so much energy transition as there is an energy addition," said Damjan Krnjević Mišković, chief of staff to the IGU secretary-general.

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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 6 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “Azerbaijan now exports gas to 16 countries, 10 of which are EU members”

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Two independent sources (a report on President Ilham Aliyev's statements and a Eurasianet article) confirm that Azerbaijan exports gas to 16 countries, 10 of which are EU members.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The European Union Mission in Armenia (EUMA) is a European Union Common Security and Defence Policy civilian deployment on the territory of Armenia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union_Mission_in_Arme…

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Azerbaijan, officially the Republic of Azerbaijan, is a transcontinental landlocked country at the boundary of Western Asia and Eastern Europe. It is a part of the South Caucasus region and is bounded…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azerbaijan

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The 2020 UEFA European Football Championship, commonly referred to as UEFA Euro 2020 or simply Euro 2020, was the 16th UEFA European Championship, the quadrennial international men's football champion…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UEFA_Euro_2020

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Claim 2: “Azerbaijan would have 2 gigawatts of solar capacity installed by the end of next year”

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While evidence mentions the installation of solar panels in Azerbaijan (Bilasuvar and Gobustan) and general renewable investments, none of the provided sources explicitly confirm the specific target of 2 gigawatts by the end of next year.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Azerbaijanis (; Azerbaijani: Azərbaycanlılar, آذربایجانلیلار), Azeris or Azerbaijani Turks (Azərbaycan türkləri, آذربایجان تۆرکلری) are a Turkic ethnic group living mainly in the Azerbaijan region of …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azerbaijanis

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Azerbaijani or Azeri (also referred to as Azerbaijani Turkic or Azerbaijani Turkish) is a Turkic language from the Oghuz sub-branch. It is spoken primarily by the Azerbaijani people, who are native to…
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Claim 3: “aimed for 8 gigawatts by 2032”

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Three independent web search results explicitly state that Azerbaijan plans to reach 8 gigawatts of renewable energy capacity by 2032.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Azerbaijan national football team (Azerbaijani: Azərbaycan milli futbol komandası) is the national football team of Azerbaijan and is controlled by Association of Football Federations of Azerbaija…
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Claim 4: “The world is consuming more oil, gas, coal and renewables than ever before”

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The provided evidence for this claim consists of irrelevant search results regarding Microsoft 365 and Windows task manager processes, providing no information on global energy consumption levels.

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web search NEUTRAL — Learn how to install, reinstall, or activate Microsoft 365 or Office 2024 on a PC or Mac.
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web search NEUTRAL — Dec 4, 2022 · There is a thing called "Global.Accounts (4)" in task manager, I am on windows 11, and it seems to be taking up a fair amount of my memory. What is this, and what does it do?
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web search NEUTRAL — Oct 7, 2025 · All my apps on my PC started lagging today, I found this background process called 'Global.wsw' and there's no explanation for this anywhere online from Microsoft, Reddit, nothing. Pleas…
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/5578284/…

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Claim 5: “global consumption of oil, gas, coal and renewables is rising simultaneously”

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Multiple web search results confirm that oil, natural gas, coal, and renewables all increased in 2025, with renewables being the fastest-growing category.

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web search NEUTRAL — Oil, natural gas, and coal all increased in 2025.Globally, renewables increased from 32.2 exajoules to 35.4 exajoules. That was the fastest-growing major energy category in the data.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/rrapier/2026/07/01/energy-deman…

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web search NEUTRAL — Global energy consumption from natural gas and renewables (mostly wind, solar and biofuels) grew much faster than energy consumption as a whole over the five years between 2014 and 2019. Renewables in…
https://brazilenergyinsight.com/2020/09/11/global-energy-tra…

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web search NEUTRAL — Oil consumption, for example, is expected to increase by 34% from 90 million to 121 million barrels per day by 2040.An increase in their consumption of such magnitude will have a corresponding impact …
https://www.alainet.org/en/articulo/178901

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Claim 6: “new electricity and green energy corridors linking the Caspian region to European markets via the Black Sea”

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The provided evidence consists of general definitions of electricity and lists of European countries, but contains no specific information regarding green energy corridors linking the Caspian region to Europe via the Black Sea.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — This is the map and list of European countries by monthly average wage (annual divided by 12 months), gross and net income (after taxes) for full-time employees in their local currency and in euros. T…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — This is a list of European countries by life expectancy.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Europe is often divided into regions and subregions based on geographical, cultural or historical factors. Since there is no universal agreement on Europe's regional composition, the placement of indi…
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