Brazil’s Petrobras has confirmed a continued focus on exploration and production activities, and also its divestment plans. Petrobras does not foresee renewables in its portfolio, yet its R&D Center will continue to research offshore wind power. 

Plans to establish power generation plants in the West Bank offer opportunities for U.S. companies in the areas power generation, transmission, and distribution.

The Serbian Government announced an allocation of $13.5 billion for major development projects in a National Investment Plan to be completed by 2025.  Most of the funds will go to road, rail, air, and water upgrades, all opportunities for U.S. firms. 

Indonesia is challenged by grid reliability and electricity distribution to rural communities. U.S. companies have an opportunity to partner with the state-owned utility, PLN, to resolve these challenges. 

Poland plans to install smart meters at 80% of end-users by 2026. Currently the number of intelligent meters installed constitutes only 5% of the total number of meters in operation (1.3 million).

The Polish government is working on legislation to allow the construction of wind farms off of Poland’s coastline.

Photovoltaics will experience significant growth in Poland in the upcoming years.

Large-scale utilization of renewable energy requires both energy accumulation and grid stabilization. The boom in electric mobility in the Czech Republic has led to the advancement of grid energy storage.  

U.S. companies interested in becoming Aramco suppliers must register and meet strict localization requirements. 

Polish state-controlled oil and gas company PGNiG, recently announced their plans to implement a hydrogen program consisting of five projects, implemented over the course of five years at a total cost of nearly $8 million. 

Poland plans to spend $30 billion on clean heating to fight smog. The World Health Organization says that 33 out of Europe’s 50 most polluted cities are in Poland, including Krakow and cities in the southern Silesia coal mining region. 

Demand for Full-body Safety Harnesses is increasing in Japan.

The city of Zagreb approved $170 million valued project for energy efficient reconstruction of public lighting for smart LED technology.  

Poland’s strategy to meet its growing electricity consumption is a national energy and climate plan. 

The Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) is pressing ahead to raise crude production capacity to 5 million barrel per day (bpd) by 2030.  ADNOC stated that they are on track to increase supply to over 4 million bpd by the beginning of April 2020.