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The ongoing global and regional efforts to decentralize and decarbonize the energy industry result in an increasingly digitized network that will be a more interconnected, intelligent, and responsive energy infrastructure continuously generating substantial amounts of data. However, the industry historically lacks innovative technologies and operat...

This Frost & Sullivan insight provides a neat overview of the UK’s balancing services, with an astute focus on battery energy storage technology. This insight comprises analysis of the markets that are relevant to it. To begin with, an optimal balance between supply and demand is critical for any electricity grid to function at peak performance. Fr...

This edition of the Oil and Gas (O&G) Technology Opportunity Engines features information on real-time subsea robotics, subsea asset integrity and intervention systems, methane detection methods, predictive maintenance, burner monitoring system, and heavy oil recovery, among others.The Oil and Gas TOE provides intelligence on innovations pertaining...

Global smart grid investment is likely to grow rapidly. By 2025, a complete transformation to a smarter grid is unlikely but the process would have gained pace with major changes underway in grid automation, demand-side management, and Big Data analytics. Revenue growth will be the fastest in Europe. Demand response and advanced metering infrastruc...

Frost & Sullivan's Top 10 Strategic Imperatives in the global power and energy industry highlights the trends with the greatest future impact. Our model takes into account the key dynamics and fundamentals of the market to generate the ten most significant strategic imperatives for the industry. The growth in distributed energy resources, be it ren...

This edition of the Energy & Power Systems (EPS) TOE features information about the innovations in wind detection LiDARs for atmospheric profiling, wind turbine performance enhancement, solar asset inspection systems, offshore floating solar solutions, early warning weather systems for wind and solar assets, zinc batteries as well as advanced lithi...

09 Sep 2015  |  Global  |  Megatrends

New and Future Business Models for Energy Utilities

Distributed Generation, Smart Technology, and Renewable Energy Drive Business Model Innovation

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The traditional utility business model of a pure-play centralised power producer and provider will soon be extinct. Distributed generation (DG) will increasingly feature in new utility value propositions as utilities try to capture more downstream opportunities. These will include several models, from an aggregator of DG to providing complete energ...

Public and private sector investment in renewable energy, mainly solar PV and wind, is increasing in response to the need to reduce carbon emissions and dependency on fossil fuels. However, the intermittent nature of renewables requires investment in complementary grid support solutions. Battery energy storage solutions provide stability for the gr...

Although much of the focus on grid investment relates to hardware, there is a growing awareness of how important it is to increase the overall intelligence of the grid. Frost & Sullivan s Digital Grid Attractiveness Index analyzes and ranks countries based on how attractive they are for digital grid developments in terms of implementing improvement...