Lux for Innovation Leaders: Utilities
Our research on electrification and renewable energy spans transmission, distribution, automotive, manufacturing, and consumer products industries, enabling innovation leaders to have a broad purview of these trends. Our forecasts are unparalleled in understanding the demand, sources, and distribution of power. Lux assessments of how new electrified products and markets will evolve are fact-based and accurate.
Client Priorities
We are precision focused on solving for your most critical innovation initiatives.
Customer Retention
Build brand affinity by figuring out how to package a commodity product to make it stickier; identify how to combine electricity with other services and products for competitive differentiation.
Finding New Opportunities
Learn about new technologies or buyer needs to figure out how to adjust a business model or add a new business model to protect your business and grow profitability.
Evolution of the Power Grid
Understand how decentralization of power is going to impact demand for offerings as well as how to adjust current business responses to changes in power supply and demand for maximum advantage.
Asset Management
Guarantee current assets are used efficiently as well as figure out what investments should be made to ensure the most optimal infrastructure in the future (e.g., decarbonization, storage, etc.).
Understanding Demand for Power
Get the foresight on what is going to happen as the world becomes more electrified and not miss out on new emerging marketplaces, as well as protect the loss of things that are on the grid today that might not need electricity tomorrow.
Policy and Regulations
Get pragmatic advice on how to guide innovation strategies based on regional policy changes and regulatory uncertainties.
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How We Help Clients
Lux is uniquely positioned to provide electric utility leaders answers to their questions about sustainability and business: What emerging technologies are poised to make a leap forward? Which innovators are worth investing in? What changes do we need to make to our product roadmap to successfully go to market or comply with upcoming policies?
Lux leverages AI to turn weak signals in innovation and consumer behavior into insights, and Lux experts combine primary research and AI-enriched data extraction with unique proprietary models to assess technologies and innovators. This robust combination results in our singular voice of realism in the market that our clients trust.
Client Outcomes
We fuel innovation leaders’ tech scouting and improve the performance of their innovation discovery process.
We help clients meet net-zero and sustainability goals desired by innovative business leaders and understand the decarbonization of other industries.
We identify new business models, product opportunities, and potential partners for growth.
We help mitigate the risks of going out of business from changes in the technology or policy landscape, as well as from competitors getting ahead.
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Client Story
Technology evaluation, prioritization, and ranking of emerging technologies in the utility sector
Challenge
The client, an Asian utility and energy company, approached Lux to assist in the evaluation and ranking of 46 emerging technologies within Hong Kong to make the right strategic investments in and development of those with the potential to disrupt the utility.
Solution & Value
Lux validated and ranked the 46 emerging technologies based on global technology strength, region suitability, and the capability to address unmet needs in the utility and energy sector. Lux then performed a scenario analysis, identified the top 10 technologies, and proposed opinions for the key technologies that the client should monitor/reach out to in different situations. Lux’s recommendations constituted a portion of the client’s investment and development strategy.
Top Questions your industry peers are asking
Inquiry is a 50-minute virtual conversation between a licensed client member and a Lux expert. During this two-way consultative exchange, the Lux expert shares insights and acts as an advisor for the member’s strategic thinking or decision-making process.
Lux experts are having such conversations with clients every day to help them understand various aspects of technology innovation. Key questions innovation leaders in the utilities industry are asking about include:
Which technologies increase energy efficiency in buildings and contribute to the decarbonization of the sector?
Which companies developing long-duration storage technologies are most promising?
Which alternatives for on-site power generation are suitable for decarbonizing industries?
What regulations are impacting the deployment of energy storage projects?
Are you working on similar questions? We can help.
Technology Landscape: Long-Duration Energy Storage
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