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Energy Transition

Energy Transition

The complex interplay of business innovation, industrial policy, and capital investment that defines the energy transition will ultimately reshape the global economy. We can help you embrace a pragmatic, flexible approach that generates near-term value and addresses your long-term goals.

Energy Transition

The energy transition ranks among the most critical challenges of our age, as companies and countries confront the dual challenge of reducing emissions while meeting increased demand.

A host of transition barriers and market uncertainties, from labor issues, more stringent governmental regulations, and political and macroeconomic disruption to customers’ willingness to pay, have combined to create a very challenging mid-transition period that threatens to slow progress. 

Amid it all, leaders must remain focused on commercial realities, because clean technology solutions can only scale when they produce returns. A shift in focus, from long-term net-zero goals predicated on a 2050 timeframe to practical actions spanning the next 5 to 15 years, can be a strategic game changer. It enables you to assess the dynamics of policy and innovation transforming your industry and determine how best to invest in the new, low-carbon technologies, business models, and supply chains at the heart of the energy transition.

Companies that take this approach can conquer complexity and generate significant returns. Our role as the leading global advisor to cutting-edge players in the energy ecosystem, augmented by our extensive financial investor practice, makes us uniquely situated to understand the challenges confronting capital-intensive and non-capital-intensive transition-related businesses. Our energy transition consulting team will cocreate a solution with you that drives the learning curve down and the deployment curve up so you can achieve value more quickly. Our approach ensures that your strategy remains viable under a range of scenarios and can be dynamically adjusted to eliminate the uncertainties that paralyze action, address the uncertainties that hamper performance, and support robust, resilient decision making.

How We Can Help

How We Can Help

Our comprehensive approach emphasizes a reasonable timeframe for value creation, identifies transition barriers, and narrows the scope of the unknowns that companies will need to anticipate and respond to. We’ll also help you seize opportunities to create value across your organization, including procurement, supply chain, customer experience, and full potential strategy.

Net Zero Navigator

We've teamed up with Persefoni to create Net Zero Navigator, a powerful tool that helps you bridge the gap between setting a target and actually reaching it.

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Our Energy Transition Experience

Our Energy Transition Experience

Industry Expertise

Industry Expertise

Electric Vehicles

We expect the tipping point for e-mobility to be reached by 2026, with increased consumer demand leading to mass adoption of electric vehicles. Our deep expertise across every component of the e-mobility value chain can help you accelerate progress and achieve a winning edge.

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Our Partnerships & Alliances

Our Partnerships & Alliances

We have teamed with leading companies to augment our energy transition expertise with the best available technology, engineering, and modeling. These partnerships ensure that we develop effective, tailored solutions for your organization that generate tangible results in the near term and over the long haul.

Our Insights on Energy Transition

The Visionary CEO's Guide to Sustainability 2024

For sustainability, 2023 was the year boundless excitement gave way to realism as the challenge of meeting bold commitments became clear. Bain’s 2024 guide explores how leaders can meet the moment with pragmatism.

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Our Energy Transition Consultants

Social Impact

Our work in the social sector harnesses our environmental expertise and insights—all for the greater good. We are dedicated to working with nonprofits, organizations, and coalitions such as OpenMinds, WBCSD, RMI, and others to address critical challenges in the carbon and energy transition, focusing on solutions that accelerate the energy transition and help organizations create value.

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