Power & Utilities

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Conventional Power Generation

In a challenging environment, BCG helps companies regain competitiveness and fund the journey to prepare for the future.

Large-Scale Renewables

Companies turn to BCG to deliver value through strategy, scale, and new technologies in this growing sector.

Transmission & Distribution

BCG helps networks navigate disruptions and transform for the future.

Sales & Services

With a range of techniques, BCG works with retailers to upgrade their strategy and operations.

Commodity Trading & Risk Management

Clients work with BCG to maximize the value of their power portfolio and discover other valuable solutions.

Distributed Energy Resources

Clients work with BCG to adapt their business models for DER challenges and opportunities.

Gas Supply Portfolio

BCG’s deep expertise helps clients optimize their gas supply portfolios.

For more topics related to the power and utilities industry, read about supply chain management, large capital project management, and procurement.

Transformation in Power & Utilities

BCG works with power and utilities companies around the globe to unlock solutions across the entire value chain of their portfolio, creating long-lasting growth and a clear path ahead.

With the evolution of today’s energy market, utilities must be prepared to reinvent themselves. BCG helps its global utility clients undertake five crucial steps in this process:

Become a genuinely agile organization, ready for an uncertain future.
Define the strategy for legacy assets and the future portfolio of activities, including the value of vertical integration.
Deliver growth with new business models, becoming more customer centric.
Improve operational performance and align with shareholder expectations for the future portfolio.
Become fit for the future through digital, a changed culture, and more.

Center for Energy Impact

The Center for Energy Impact (CEI) aims to engage a changing industry in new and different ways by providing challenging ideas to drive performance. We shape thinking about the future availability, economics, and sustainability of the world's energy sources—and the implications for energy companies and their portfolios.

Center for Digital in Power & Utilities

BCG’s Center for Digital in Power & Utilities uses deep utility experience combined with a structured approach to help companies define the digital vision, build new offerings, transform core businesses, and establish a solid foundation for full-scale digital transformation.

How BCG Delivers Impact in Power & Utilities

BCG delivers lasting change to our clients around the globe. Read about the impact we’ve had and the solutions we bring, and discover some of our best thought leadership.

Global Energy Scenario Model

Amid the challenges of climate change, volatile energy prices, and regulatory changes, BCG’s global energy scenario model helps companies make the best decisions possible.

Digital Health Check: Power Generation Digitization

BCG’s digitization health check helps power generators better understand and optimize their use of digital technologies.

Utility Reduces Churn and Boosts Profits

BCG worked with a major European utility to design a strategy that would reduce customer attrition in the face of intensifying competition.

A Utility Transforms Its Operations and Culture

BCG worked with a large international energy utility to overhaul its core business and culture, resulting in substantial gains in operating efficiency and overall business performance.

Learn More About the Power & Utilities Sector

Electric Vehicles Are a Multibillion-Dollar Opportunity for Utilities

The boom in electric vehicles could create as much as $10 billion in value for the average utility. But companies must plan now and develop the right capabilities first.

How Utilities Can Manage Supplier Risk

BCG has developed an effective approach that utilities can use to minimize the odds of being blindsided by a major supplier-related event.

Dispatch from Davos: Energy Companies and the Race to Save the Planet

Energy companies are leveraging technology and collaboration to decarbonize their business, transition to new sources of energy, and build a cleaner future."

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Alan Thomson

Managing Director & Senior Partner

Houston

Transformation, the New Norm in Energy in the 2020s

Always-on transformation is becoming the default state in the energy industry.

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Björn Ewers

Managing Director & Partner, Middle East

Energy transition: the new and necessary mindset for the energy sector

At last week’s Mexican Energy Forum, I gave a keynote on a topic of serious importance to energy sector leaders everywhere: Disruption is coming, and you’re probably not ready.

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Paul Goydan

Managing Director & Partner

Houston

The Mounting Economic Logic of Climate Action

Climate action has moved to center stage as a critical political, economic and business topic. But governments and business executives struggle to agree on what actions to take and with what urgency.

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Patrick Herhold

Managing Director & Partner

Munich

Four Steps to Digitize Workforce Management at Utilities

In our work with leading utilities, we’ve found that companies can reap significant benefits even if they take just the first steps towards a fully digitized future.

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