Richard Stuebi shares information on regional energy archetypes and their associated pathways to shift the global energy mix. Across the world, there is near unanimous agreement on the long-run vision for the global energy mix. This vision includes: Widespread adoption of solar and wind (both onshore and offshore), augmenting hydro where available Backstopped by various forms of storage (perhaps including electrolyzed hydrogen for long-duration needs) Powering a society based on electricity for almost all stationary and transportation energy needs Fossil…

Richard Stuebi shares an article on the evolving opportunities for fossil power generation.  U.S. wholesale electricity markets are in the midst of significant disruption.  One author has called it “The Breakdown of the Merchant Generation Business Model”. Due to ever-improving economics, large quantities of new natural gas and renewables capacity are being added to the power system, quickly capturing large gains in market share of the nation’s generation mix.  With the resulting surpluses of lower-cost supplies, prices for both energy…

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…