Holger Rubel
Managing Director & Senior Partner
Frankfurt
Holger Rubel leads Boston Consulting Group's green energy work and is a core member of the firm’s Energy; Technology, Media & Telecommunications; Social Impact; and Corporate Finance & Strategy practices.
Since joining BCG in 1997, he has acquired deep knowledge and experience along the value chain and worked with a broad array of stakeholders, such as equipment manufacturers, OEMs, project developers, utilities, independent energy-service companies, and investors.
Holger’s work in the areas of green energy and sustainability has taken him to all corners of the world to oversee and coordinate projects in solar, wind, energy efficiency and storage, biomass and biofuels, carbon related topics, and other areas.
Before joining BCG, Holger was a research assistant at the Max Planck Institutes in Stuttgart.
The company’s approach to corporate responsibility offers powerful lessons for setting goals and sustainability reporting.
The environmental, economic, and social costs of food aren’t included in the price. Stakeholders must account for them to limit agriculture’s adverse effects and increase its positive impact.
Major shrimp importers are demanding sustainability and traceability. To thrive in the coming decade, producers must change the way they do business.
Plastics regeneration technologies such as pyrolysis offer economically viable ways to combat this pressing environmental challenge.
Traditional power companies can no longer ignore the popularity of green energy. M&A is the quickest and most effective approach to entering this market.
Wind power is going mainstream. As the industry matures, it must shift from maximizing megawatts to optimizing the lifetime value of turbines and other assets.
Sustainable farming could be a huge opportunity for agricultural companies—but most haven’t embraced it.
To achieve international climate goals, companies and investors must support green projects. But green projects must be financially attractive to the target investors.
The circular economy rethinks the traditional take-make-dispose economic model and envisions a new approach that is regenerative by design.
Policymakers could transform offshore wind into a major source of renewable energy. But this is not a given. Companies need to assess their options and plan accordingly.
