The stakes are high. However, the opportunities to create long-term sustainable value with disruptive business and service models while reducing emissions and confronting climate change are significant.
All 197 members of the Paris Agreement share the common goal of limiting global warming to well below 2°C this century. However, the diversity of local policy, national and local energy availability and demand mean that understanding the size of opportunity and the most suitable business, service, and revenue model to best serve this is an extremely complex matter. From the significant Capex required to improve building insulation and network refurbishment, the supply-demand challenges renewable energies (ie Solar, Wind) represent in managing load variation and the complexity of the various energy and technology suppliers to promote their offer with meaningful value propositions.