Richard Steubi shares an article on creating shared value through the emerging synthesis of corporate sustainability and strategy. Major corporations find themselves at the center of conflicting demands from virtually every direction: Activist investors are clamoring more loudly than ever for increasing shareholder value, often pushing for major changes Customers are becoming increasingly demanding and sophisticated in selecting among an ever-growing list of choices New technologies are constantly emerging, many of which are disrupting established ways of doing things —…

As the need for change in the energy sector becomes increasingly important, Richard Stuebi provides an article that explains the difference between the microgrid and the minigrid. These days, microgrids are one of the hottest topics in the energy sector.  Capitalizing on the declining costs of many distributed energy resource (DER) options, microgrids are emerging as an increasingly viable business model for augmenting the local electricity grid to improve operational resilience in the wake of emergencies.  “Resilience” is the fundamental…

  While all eyes are on the future of Africa’s resources, Richard Stuebi takes a look ahead at improving the electricity sector. In this article, he summarizes the main points from a year long study.  For the past year or so, I’ve been privileged to lead a team at the Institute for Sustainable Energy at Boston University to develop a synthesized perspective on the current state of and future prospects for the African electricity sector.  I’m pleased to announce that…