Helping a Major Energy Industry Client Develop Long-term Plans to Diversify Their Technology Portfolio

Our Client & Their Goals

Our Client, a major corporation working in the energy sector, had recently been created through a merger. As they worked to refine their new organisation’s business strategy, they recognised that their future would depend on successfully addressing several major trends. Global interest in renewable forms of energy generation has grown as nations are seeking strategies to move away from the use of fossil fuels for energy generation and transportation fuel. Nations have also recognised the need to invest in new energy transfer and distribution technologies and their ancillary technologies necessary to ensure energy security, helping the innovation in the sector.

These trends posed long-term challenges for our client, who had significant investments in oil and natural gas-related infrastructure. They also recognised that these trends could create new opportunities for the energy industry. They wanted to pursue innovative technologies that would create such opportunities across the energy value chain, and identify those opportunities which were best aligned with their strategic plans.

​In developing their new business’s strategy to respond to these challenges, they sought our expertise and our evaluation of the current and future landscape of the energy industry.

CamIn's Solution

We worked with our client to understand their goals and to identify the energy technology areas and their associated technologies that were of greatest interest to them. In total, they identified 17 areas of the energy industry that they wanted us to assess, encompassing the entire energy value chain—from energy generation to energy distribution. They also asked us to investigate ancillary areas with the potential to affect sectors within the energy industry, such as carbon capture, storage and utilisation, bioplastics, and electric vehicles. 

To conduct a thorough examination of the 17 distinct areas identified, CamIn assembled a team of 16 leading experts who have worked in and/or extensively researched these sectors. For each of the individual areas, our team evaluated both state-of-the-art technologies and those currently under development within the world’s top research groups. Our teams completed a detailed forecast, which determined the technological advances that were likely to occur in each energy technology area over the next decade.

Our straightforward, evidence-based evaluation of each technology clearly identified those technologies that were most likely to grow in significance within the energy industry.

The Impact

Our results helped our client design a diversified business strategy in light of our forecasts of how each sub-area of the energy industry will develop over the next decade. Our straightforward, evidence-based evaluation of each technology clearly identified those technologies that were most likely to grow in significance within the energy industry. Our Client’s Head of Growth and Innovation said that our team’s report would be the authoritative source to inform their work addressing these challenges.