In markets where electric vehicles dominate, up to one quarter of fuel retail outlets may become unprofitable by 2035. Here’s how fuel retailers can adapt.
Eight important trends will reshape the industry over the next ten years. Players must adapt to these developments or risk losing their competitive edge.
Exploration and production companies are coming up with high-value ways to take costs out of the system—permanently.
Europe’s energy challenge remains a threat. A green transformation is both a strategic necessity and a massive growth opportunity.
To prepare for tomorrow’s global energy system, players need to understand how power market dynamics are evolving today.
Four major barriers stand between emerging climate technologies and adoption at scale. Here’s how earlier pioneering technologies—wind, CCGT, renewables, LNG, and solar—overcame them.
BCG’s recent report outlines five ways to encourage removal of residual CO2 emissions, a critical factor in achieving global targets to curtail climate impacts.
As a climate mitigation tool, recycling captured carbon—rather than storing it—is attracting growing interest. But how viable is it?
Diego Santamaria Razo of BCG X discusses the challenge of implementing new carbon-reduction technologies and the critical role that strategic partnerships play in scaling climate solutions.
HSBC’s Greg Guyett and BCG’s Rich Lesser discuss how banks can finance midsize businesses around the world to help them achieve sustainability goals and more.
BCG’s Jim Larson and Breakthrough Energy’s Mike Boots discuss the Breakthrough Energy Catalyst and the private sector’s role in driving climate technology innovation.
In this series, we examine the disruptive forces that are bearing down on business leaders today, so that they can understand where opportunities exist amid the uncertainty.
To unlock the full value of existing operations, oil and gas companies must improve collaboration among their business and IT teams and leverage the mountains of data that they have at their disposal.
Digital tools enabled by advanced analytics, artificial intelligence, and machine learning can help companies uncover the fastest and most effective path to abating the O&G industry’s greenhouse gas emissions.
Artificial intelligence has the potential to reduce companies’ greenhouse gas emissions and cut costs by monitoring their carbon footprint and then reducing it through increased efficiency.
Women are significantly underrepresented in the oil and gas industry. Why? And what can the industry do about it?
BCG's Tina Zuzek demonstrates how companies can retain their best female employees.
BCG's Alan Thomson speaks to the tangible benefits of gender balance in the workplace.
Bold policy moves and flexibility enabled Europe to weather the loss of Russian gas during the war in Ukraine. What can we learn from the crisis?
Chasing new ways to manage volatility, advance sustainability, and build resilience can boost individual companies and benefit the broader business ecosystem.
Data-driven transparency provides the basis for setting performance targets, designing and implementing collaborative vendor development programs, and activating the broader business ecosystem.
As electricity markets become more volatile, the value of using energy flexibly is increasing. Companies can take four practical actions to create advantage.
Regions like Europe must import sizeable volumes of low-carbon hydrogen by 2030 to meet climate commitments. Increasingly, that looks like a long shot.
Hydrogen will be a key player in the transition to renewable energy sources. ENOWA’s Roland Kaeppner and BCG’s Maurice Berns describe the use cases and opportunities to develop hydrogen across industries.
Parker Meeks, CEO of Hyzon, explains why hydrogen is essential to decarbonization and what it will take to scale the needed infrastructure.
Charlotte Roule, CEO of Storengy, Europe's largest storage operator, discusses the crucial role underground hydrogen storage will play in the energy transition.
