The Global Coalition for Energy Planning (GCEP) is a voluntary global initiative that brings together governments, financial institutions, and partners to align long-term energy planning with the investments needed for a just and equitable transition.

Launched at the 1st Energy Planning Summit in Rio de Janeiro in June 2025, following Brazil’s G20 Presidency, the Coalition responds to a pressing challenge: while the world has committed to tripling renewable energy capacity and doubling efficiency by 2030, clean energy investment remains heavily concentrated in a handful of countries. Many developing nations, including African states and Small Island Developing States (SIDS), risk being left behind.

GCEP addresses this gap by strengthening country-owned planning ecosystems. It helps governments and their partners provide the clarity, predictability, and confidence that investors need. By connecting the energy planning and finance communities, the Coalition turns ambitious national goals into bankable realities.

GCEP’s mission is simple but urgent: to drive investment for a just and equitable transition by fostering innovation in planning, enhancing institutional planning capacities, and mobilising collective action.

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The work of the Global Coalition for Energy Planning is guided by the following five core principles. These principles inform all activities under the Agenda for Action and ensure the Coalition remains aligned with its mission.

• Promoting transparent and effective energy planning.
• Facilitating knowledge exchange and capacity building.
• Catalysing investments by creating enabling environments.
• Encouraging national ownership of energy planning processes and inclusive participation.
• Leveraging existing initiatives and partnerships

GCEP is a demand-driven initiative dedicated to empowering countries, with a special focus on the unique challenges faced across the developing world. To achieve its mission, the Coalition will pursue three strategic goals, framed as a call to action:

1. Enhance countries’ capacity to attract investment by helping develop credible long-term visions that create a stable pipeline of bankable projects by fostering robust and inclusive planning ecosystems.
2. Support reducing the cost of the energy transition by promoting transparency, sharing of best practices in policy and regulatory design, and promoting a common language between planners and financiers.
3. Enhance coordination of global planning support. GCEP will serve as a hub to improve alignment and synergy across the diverse landscape of actors supporting energy planning, including international organisations, development banks, and bilateral partners.

The Agenda for Action is the Coalition’s roadmap to impact. Built through extensive consultations with countries and partners, it reflects shared priorities and turns them into concrete initiatives. Structured around two workstreams – From Planning to Investment and Enhancing Technical and Implementation Capacity – it connects governments, financiers, and experts to unlock investment, strengthen institutions, and deliver practical solutions for a just and equitable energy transition.

By joining the Coalition, Members and Partners contribute to a global platform that translates national ambitions into bankable projects, strengthens planning institutions, and ensures the transition is both just and achievable.

The GCEP is a global platform for collective action, bringing together countries and institutions that want to shape the future of energy planning and investment.

Members

Membership is open to national governments, regional integration bodies, intergovernmental organisations, and multilateral or national development banks that endorse the GCEP Letter of Principles. On the recommendation of a country Member, participation may also extend to international platforms and knowledge institutions with a global mandate for public–private cooperation in the energy or financial sectors. Members guide the Coalition’s strategic direction and play an active role in advancing the Agenda for Action.

Partners

The Coalition also engages a wide network of Partners, including development agencies, regulators, utilities, private companies, civil society, philanthropic organisations, and research institutions. Partners enrich the work of the GCEP by contributing technical expertise, case studies, and innovative solutions, ensuring that activities remain practical and grounded in real-world needs.

Roles and Expectations

All contributions are voluntary, but Members and Partners are encouraged to actively engage by sharing knowledge, joining workstreams, co-hosting events, and contributing to knowledge products. This hands-on, challenge-led engagement is what drives the Coalition forward.

How to Join

Contact GCEP Secretariat through: GCEP@irena.org.