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Jan Vrins
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.
the energy cloud in action
july 29, 2019
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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
podcast
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
Capturing Business Value through Disruptive Energy Platforms
energy cloud 4.0
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.
Transportation 2 Grid
Centered on the electrification of transportation and integration with the electricity grid, the transportation-to-grid (T2G) platform represents opportunities worth an estimated $150 billion to $200 billion in annual revenue by 2028.
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Jan Vrins
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 is shifting value downstream and reshuffling the market.
Value Is Shifting
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Energy Cloud Provides Value
New value will be created across Energy Cloud platforms.
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Energy Cloud is a Reality
Companies should consider reinventing their business to keep competitive.
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Reinvent Fast
Energy incumbents have less than 5 years to reinvent their business models and become a player in the emerging energy economy.
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Energy Cloud = Profits
Business models that leverage Energy Cloud platforms potentially scale faster and yield greater profit margins.
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Adopt an Energy Cloud Playbook
Companies should adapt an Energy Cloud Playbook to transform and drive sustainable excellence into the future.
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Building 2 Grid
Within the next 5 years, residential and commercial customers are expected to invest over $50 billion in behind-the-meter integrated energy assets to take advantage of building-to-grid (B2G) opportunities.
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Neural Grid
As global utilities move to the grid of tomorrow, the neural grid, they are expected to invest more than $700 billion over the next decade into upgrading their information technology, communications networking, and automation capabilities.
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disrupting with energy cloud:
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Transactive Energy
Transactive energy (TE) platforms are expected to see billions in software-related investments, technology integration, and fees by 2030. Global revenue from TE software used in virtual power plants, for example, is expected to exceed $5 billion by 2030.
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Smart Cities
By 2030, more than 5 billion people are expected to live in cities. Cumulative investments focused on smart city energy projects are projected to exceed $250 billion through 2030, giving way to more sustainable and low carbon communities.
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Internet of Energy
In the Internet of Energy, more than $1 trillion in cumulative global revenue is at stake through 2030 from investment in connected industrial devices. Tapping into this opportunity will require deeper predictive insights, management over connected assets, and new customer services.
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Integrated DER
Integrated DER (IDER) platforms are expected to generate approximately $3 trillion in value over the next few decades, but with aggressive investment, these platforms could support more $4 trillion in the same timeframe as DER’s reach continues to expand.
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