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Multiple Energy Cloud trends and tipping points indicate that the energy transformation is already well underway. Energy Cloud 4.0: Capturing Value through Disruptive Energy Platforms explains the forces behind these trends and tipping points and how stakeholders can leverage them.
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Energy companies and utilities need to be proactive in responding to changing market pressures and increasingly agile in adopting innovative new business models. Although policy and regulatory reform is an important driver of transformation, customer choice and technology innovation are relentless instigators of disruption. These forces are critical in understanding the Energy Cloud transformation.
Energy Cloud platforms sit at the confluence of rapidly changing customer demands and highly disruptive technology. These emerging platforms have the potential to scale faster and yield greater profit margins than the traditional asset-focused and supply models that dominate the industry today, and offer the potential to offset flat or declining load growth.
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Capturing Business Value through Disruptive Energy Platforms
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The energy sector is in the midst of a major global transformation. During the next 5-15 years, Navigant expects massive disruption across the entire energy value chain that will affect a broad set of stakeholders. This transformation is primarily being fueled by multilateral efforts focused on decarbonizing the global economy to address climate change and a shift toward an increasingly clean, intelligent, mobile, and distributed energy ecosystem.
Linear value chains supporting one-way power flow from centralized generation to end customers will give way to a more sustainable, highly digitized, and dynamic energy system. Moving toward a multidirectional network of networks and away from a linear hub-and-spoke model, this system will support two-way energy flows in which customer choice (optionality), clean energy, innovation, and agility command a premium. At Navigant, we call this the Energy Cloud.
Navigant’s white paper, Energy Cloud 4.0: Capturing Value through Disruptive Energy Platforms, is the next installment in Navigant’s Energy Cloud series. The paper examines the impacts of an Energy Cloud future, profiles the emergence of dynamic, high-growth platforms, and finally, provides a framework for capturing value.
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insights
Transportation-to-Grid
Navigant’s white paper explores the transportation-to-grid platform and its business models through the lens of transportation electrification, with a focus on plug-in electric vehicles
june 28, 2019
podcast
Beyond the Electron: Understanding Transactive Energy
In episode five of the podcast series, Navigant explores transactive energy's potential impact on utilities and customers
october 2, 2018
podcast
Beyond the Electron:The Foundation of Our Distributed Energy Future
In episode three of the podcast series, Navigant takes a closer look at the possibilities and manifestations of iDER
january 7, 2019
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Beyond the Electron: Neural Grid and the Internet of Energy
In episode four of the podcast series, Navigant takes a closer look at the possibilities of the neural grid
february 20, 2018
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From Smart Grid to Neural Grid
Industry Transformation and the Top Five Technologies Poised to Bring the Grid Into the Cloud
december 12, 2017
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Navigating the Urban Energy Transformation: Building Smart & Sustainable Future Cities
Navigant explores the critical elements of the emerging city energy landscape in a new white paper
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Transportation-to-Grid: New Business Models to Capture Value in the Energy Cloud
A cleaner, intelligent, increasingly mobile, and more distributed grid is just aroun d the corner. Fully realized, the Energy Cloud will significantly reduce the amount of power flowing through the bulk grid and result in value shifting downstream to the customer and a reshuffling of market share among incumbent and new market entrants.
New value will be created and captured across highly dynamic and disruptive Energy Cloud platforms, including Integrated DER (iDER), Transportation-to-Grid (T2G), Building-to-Grid (B2G), Internet of Energy (IoE), Transactive Energy (TE), Smart Cities, and the Neural Grid.
Organizations should be prepared for all potential Energy Cloud realities. This includes considering high disruption scenarios that threaten to put your organization out of business and, potentially, leveraging paradigm shifts to reinvent your business and capitalize on opportunities seemingly far-fetched today.
Energy incumbents, especially utilities, have less than 5 years to reorient their products and business models around fast emerging technology ecosystems like iDER, Smart Cities, and IoE or risk becoming a fringe player in the emerging energy economy.
Service-based and network orchestrator business models leveraging fast emerging Energy Cloud platforms have the potential to scale faster and yield greater profit margins than the traditional asset-focused and supply models that currently dominate the industry.
To prepare for organizational transformation and drive sustainable excellence into the future, we recommend energy companies and utilities adopt an Energy Cloud Playbook.
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Beyond the Electron: The Foundation of Our Distributed Energy Future
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Integrated DER: Orchestrating the Grid's Last Mile
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