This section explores trends in electricity demand, power systems, energy security, geopolitics, grid investment, and decarbonisation, and how they are shaping future energy costs and the global energy transition.
Energy Markets
For decades, business growth came from securing funding, attracting skilled workers, and finding customers. A new constraint is now quietly joining that list and, unlike the others, we cannot negotiate it, disrupt it, or hire our way around it.
Energy Markets
Artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming part of everyday life, with businesses across industries exploring its potential to improve performance. However, its rapid adoption is also emerging as a major driver of rising electricity demand.
Energy Markets
Our electricity bills are not determined at the point of generation, but by the cost of moving, balancing, and stabilizing electricity across the grid. As the system becomes more complex, the cost of the grid itself is becoming one of the most important drivers of future electricity prices.
Sustainability Consultant
Every time fossil fuels are burned, an indirect cost is created that eventually appears in higher energy bills, insurance, food prices, and the deterioration of infrastructure.
Climate Risk & Economics
War rarely stays confined to the battlefield. When conflict erupts in one of the world’s most strategically important energy regions, the consequences have a domino effect across financial markets, government budgets, and global priorities.
Sustainability Consultant
For more than a decade, natural gas has been promoted as a “bridge fuel” in the energy transition. But the choice comes with both an economic and environmental compromise.
Sustainability Consultant
Household bills are rising everywhere. While inflation and geopolitics often take the blame, extreme weather, supply disruptions, and energy market shifts are increasingly shaping the price of everyday essentials.
Energy Markets
Many sustainable businesses are now monitoring direct emissions from their facilities. Yet, this only captures a small portion of the overall emissions. The huge lump comes from the sources of power, which contain a substantial amount of fossil fuels.
Energy Markets
In 2022, the supply chain disruptions caused by Ukraine’s invasion increased coal production around the world by 8.2%. Over 70% of the coal mining happened in Asia, with China and India leading the production.
Energy Markets
Russian gas pipeline shipments to the EU decreased by almost 60% in the second half of 2022 compared to June 2021, primarily through the Nord Stream. Gas and electricity costs are currently regulated in several European nations, in part to safeguard vulnerable households.
Energy Markets
Earlier this month, the EU’s Energy ministers urged the European Commission (EC) to take immediate action against the current energy crisis. The action plan that includes the discussion of imposing a price cap on natural gas was supposed to be delivered in mid-September, but it has been postponed.
Energy Markets
The European Union (EU) Energy ministers met on September 9 in Brussels to address the current energy crisis in the EU. The meeting agreed to speedily work on possible emergency measures to mitigate current high prices and support the winter demand.