On 11 November 2015, the International Energy Agency (IEA) presented the World Energy Outlook 2015 in Berlin. From the speech of the new IEA Executive Director Fatih Birol, it was clear that the IEA is under pressure to modernise. Birol's words left no doubts as to the agenda of his term of office: he wants to reform the IEA. The agency is to become a hub for clean energy technologies and energy efficiency. Birol also wants to strengthen cooperation with emerging economies beyond the OECD. All of this points to a sea change within the IEA. In the past, it has often been accused of deliberately underestimating the expansion of renewables in its scenarios for the future development of global energy markets. For example, a recent analysis of the Energy Watch Group and the Lappeenranta University of Technology stresses that the trajectories for the expansion of solar and wind energy outlined in the World Energy Outlooks from 1994 to 2014 were far too modest.