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What are the universal challenges faced by the Energy sector – applying Partner Ecosystems thinking.

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Applying Partner Ecosystem Thinking into the Energy Sector

In my last post I took six of what I feel are the most significant issues: that I believe require Partner Ecosystem thinking and design.

Within the Energy business, to make the enormous changes required in the transitions from fossil fuel to renewables we simply cannot “go it alone”, we need collaborations across all of the parts of energy from power generation, utilization, transmission and distribution, storage and consumption.

I firmly believe it is the ability to collaborate, share and innovate together can rapidly accelerate the transformation we need.

When I re-read this earlier post I increasingly recognized these challenges are broader and need expanding upon.

In some ways these are universal challenges that all involved will need to address and it is this ability to collaborate and co-create that will make that defining difference.

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Engagement within the Energy Movement

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Engagement in the Energy Transition Movement

How do you encourage engagement? How do you create the conditions that enable collaboration and cooperation to occur? How can we combine all the forces that make up the Energy Transition?

In the past week or so, I have gained a growing belief we are building the momentum to bring the different sources within the Energy Transition together. The conditions are being created.

Let me briefly provide a few stand-out ones that give encouragement

Firstly in Brussels a Clean Tech Investment meeting took place, nicely summarized by Ann Mettler, the Vice President at Breakthrough Energy. Ann posted “Clean Tech Investment: Top of Mind in Brussels 🇪🇺

💨 What a whirlwind: In less than 24 hours, I had two opportunities to talk investment, at a ‘Clean Transition Dialogue’ hosted by EVP Maroš Šefčovič, in the presence of EC President Ursula von der Leyen and a ‘High-Level Investor Dinner’ with Commissioner Iliana Ivanova.

Briefly she noted the significant talking points:
⬆️ More project finance
💶 Mobilize institutional investors
🤝Double down on public guarantees
🆕 Innovation Fund +++
✅ EU Climate Bank Needs Laser Focus on Clean Tech
📑Better planning, guaranteed contracts
✔️DG Competition reality check

That set of bullet points gives only the top layer of an incredible amount of work going on in support of clean energy tech to give it momentum and shows just one of Ann’s incredible personal energy and commitment to getting the Clean Energy underway (Link to post)

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Considering the design of the Energy Ecosystem

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Designing the Energy Transition with Ecosystem Thinking and Design

By fostering greater collaboration and co-creation within the Energy Industry, it is becoming crucial to consider Ecosystems in design and thinking. Ecosystems designed well are robust for navigating the complex landscape of any Energy transition.

The Energy transition we are all facing has such high levels of complexity and challenge. We are undertaking a radical redesign of our energy systems where renewables based on clean energy, decarbonization or low carbon, new distributed business models and rapidly growing demands for electricity are all compressed into a thirty-year agenda to achieve net zero. Collaboration, cooperation and coordination will be paramount, and this is where Ecosystems and Platform technology will become essential to manage these “multiple” transformations needed.

Here in this post is a structured argument for promoting Business Ecosystem thinking and design for those involved in the Energy System, emphasizing the benefits of sharing IP, knowledge, research, market insights, and general improvement potentials when it comes to considering Ecosystems within the Energy Transitions, where collaborations are growing in importance and need. I outline ten areas of consideration.

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Energy Dependence, Vulnerability and Risks

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We are presently seeing the vulnerability of the European markets to supply dependence and especially risks of reliance upon Gas from Russia. So how much is Europe dependent on Russian gas?
The EU is so dependent on it, and because it has committed to limiting its greenhouse gas emissions. The EU imported 155 billion cubic meters of natural gas from Russia in 2021, almost half (45%) of its gas imports and nearly 40% of the total amount used, according to the IEA.

There is currently a real scramble to change the dependencies due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the implications to Europe, and this growing recognition that Europe is faced with a real energy crisis for the next decade.

The current “talking up” of replacing oil, coal and gas with renewables of wind, solar, green hydrogen solutions (PEM Electrolyzers), new grid infrastructure and battery storage means potentially some very volatile and disruptive energy management problems in the short to medium term.

Over now for the next 10 years replacing existing energy generating solutions, dependent on oil, coal and gas with ones based on renewable solutions needs to be even more central to energy management.

But we also need to be recognizing the next crisis following this present one, that is rapidly coming towards us is the dependences on essential minerals and who controls these and that is China.

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