New Article Published: Leaders or Laggards? The evolution of electric utilities’ business portfolios during the energy transition
SusTec researchers Fanny Frei, Simon Sinsel, Ahmed Hanafy, and Jörn Hoppmann have published a new article in Energy Policy that investigates changes in business portfolios of the biggest electric utilities worldwide during the energy transition.
The freshly published article “Leaders or Laggards? The evolution of electric utilities’ business portfolios during the energy transition” analyzes changes in business activities of the biggest electric utilities between 2003 and 2015. It concludes that - besides only investing in renewable energy generation assets and energy efficiency - utilities can play a major role in integrating and balancing the components of a low-carbon electricity system, but that regulatory changes or additional policy incentives may be necessary to spur system integration as a critical part of the energy transition. The full-length article can be downloaded Download here.