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Global Clean Energy Technology

Comprehensive market intelligence providing critical insight and data for decision-makers and business developers in the clean energy technology sector.

New opportunities for energy businesses are opening up in response to the challenges of deep decarbonization in the global economy. Traditional energy companies and newcomers to the energy world are seeking competitive advantage in areas that are either still uncharted or untested at the scale that the energy world demands.

IHS Markit’s Global Clean Energy Technology service provides data, insight and analytics tools that are critical for decision makers and business developers as they define their future activities with the energy technologies that are emerging at the leading edge of the transition.

Our insights and analysis across the new energy/technology space – solar and wind power, batteries and other storage media, hydrogen and renewable gas – helps inform managerial and shareholder choice for a low carbon future. Investors, as well as inventors, are increasingly keen to take up the challenges of the energy transition, and the service provides valuable contextual framing for energy companies presenting their clean tech business strategies to investor communities.

With the Global Clean Energy Technology Service you can:

  • Track the development of the most important clean energy technologies, and understand how they will develop in the future
  • Identify, analyze and benchmark against key players throughout the entire supply chain, from component providers and manufacturers to system integrators and project developers
  • Understand market fundamentals, drivers and challenges, and forecast the development of costs and prices to understand the competition between technologies
  • Assess strategic investments in a technology or a combination of technologies to achieve carbon reduction goals with full visibility of the technology landscape
  • Anticipate market and technology turning points, keep track individual projects, and assess the effects of policy and regulatory changes on the landscape.

Why Clean Energy Technology?

As the energy system decarbonizes, it is becoming more complex and more interconnected. In the traditional energy system, gas, power and heat grids operated in a one-way fashion providing energy to the consumer; the links between different source of energy were limited to the power generation sector. The energy system that is emerging today is fundamentally different:

Many uncertainties underlie the future path of the energy system, but electrification will continue and energy storage, low-carbon gas (hydrogen and renewable gas), solar and wind will grow. The growth of these four technologies will be driven by the following:
Continued electrification

In 2019, global electricity demand was 27,000 TWh and electricity accounted for 20% of final energy consumption. This was more than double the consumption in 1990 (12,000 TWh and 14% of final energy consumption). Rapid growth will continue and moves to deep decarbonization will hugely increase electricity demand. In a net zero carbon world as much as 60% of final energy consumption could come from electricity.

Wind and solar will dominate global power generation capacity additions

Since 2015 renewable capacity additions have exceeded conventional additions globally. Throughout the 2020s, IHS Markit anticipate annual additions of more than 70GW of wind and 120GW for solar. This growth will drive technological advances and significant investment in the manufacturing supply chain.

Electricity storage will enable high renewables penetration and system resilience

Pumped hydro has traditionally dominated electricity storage. As costs have fallen, and large amounts of wind and solar have been deployed, lithium-ion batteries have become a major provider of flexibility to the power system. Over 2,700 GW of grid-batteries will be connected to the grid in the coming decade. The build-out will be dominated by Li-ion batteries. However, other battery chemistries and alternative non-battery technologies will also play specific roles and offer opportunities for investment.

Gas will remain an essential component of the energy mix, but it will decarbonize

Hydrogen can be used as fuel in the transport sector, or heat generation in industrial, residential, and commercial sectors, as well as power generation. If produced from hydrocarbons, with carbon capture and storage, or water electrolysis with renewables it can decarbonize end-use sectors. We anticipate annual global investment in electrolysis to increase 20-fold by 2023 and work is underway to use low-carbon gas to decarbonize the first industrial clusters by the mid-2020s.

Global Clean Energy Technology Service:

Coverage and deliverables
  • Costs and technology:
    • Technology status and future development proposals
    • Capital and operating costs – current and future
    • Levelized costs for electricity and hydrogen
  • Policy and revenue streams:
    • Policy development related to technologies covered in CET research
    • Mapping policy and market related revenue streams and business models
    • Technology competition and complementarity
  • Companies and supply chain:
    • Value chain overview, including supply chain
    • Project tracking, including project ownership and equipment supply
    • Corporate presence along the value chain
  • Capacity and investment outlook:
    • Gross additions, retirements, and capacity
    • Low carbon gas infrastructure
    • Investment requirement by technology
Technologies Covered
  • Solar PV
  • Batteries & Energy Storage
  • Onshore and Offshore Wind
  • Hydrogen & Renewable Gas
  • Carbon Sequestration
Who this Service Helps
  • Integrated oil and gas companies
  • E&P companies
  • Utilities
  • Mining companies
  • Chemical producers
  • Automotive manufacturers
  • Energy equipment manufacturers
  • EPC companies
  • Large energy consumers
  • Energy service providers
  • Regulators and government agencies
  • Financial institutions

Key job functions:

  • Strategic/corporate planning
  • Portfolio planning
  • Forecasting and market analysis
  • Business development
  • Marketing/sales
  • Origination
Service Solutions

Fundamental insights on the most important clean energy technologies, addressing energy transition areas critical to long-term strategic planning for a low carbon future:

  • The service offers ongoing analysis of policy, technology, and coverage of key market issues and drivers, helping clients make sense of the emerging energy system that is becoming more complex and interconnected.
  • Detailed price and market fundamental forecasts for key components of the equipment for the technologies covered, supporting strategic planning by understanding the supply - demand balance, and the future impacts this has on pricing.
  • Scale the viability of market opportunities with access to global and country-level deployment and installations data, combined with competitive environment analysis to assess which technologies to algin new venture strategies to.
  • Build an understanding of the regions or companies with the biggest sales pipelines and how the project landscape is developing, as Clean Energy Technology provides the largest project databases globally with individual project level data, including status, analysis of profitability at each stage of the supply chain, and emerging technology monitoring.
  • Integration of new, effective technologies plays a critical role as companies innovate, and the Clean Energy Technology service provides visibility of the latest technology trends, with the latest information on the technology landscape, costs, and evolution of existing techs and non-mainstream technologies.
  • Clean Energy Technology provides detailed analysis of the various supply chains, helping procurement professionals to identify key players, forecast the development of costs and prices and understand the short-term evolution of the technologies – supporting purchase decisions and purchase timing.

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Josefin Berg

Her focus areas include developer and EPC strategies, the demand for PV in emerging markets and the role of PV in the power generation mix. With more than 10 years of experience in the solar power industry, Ms. Berg authors reports on PV markets and trends, and she regularly speaks at industry events. Prior to joining IHS Markit, she was an R&D strategy consultant in the field of energy efficiency and renewable energies. Ms. Berg holds a Master of Science in environmental engineering from Uppsala University, Sweden. She speaks English, French, Spanish and Swedish and is based in Barcelona, Spain.

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Francesco d'Avack

Mr d'Avack coordinates global long-term outlooks for power and renewable market fundamentals including capacity and generation outlooks, and he leads the global cost analysis for renewables. He writes about the changing policy and market environment for renewable power generation as well as storage, emerging technology trends, business models, and the impacts for renewable supply chains. He regularly contributes to consulting engagements and multiclient studies.Before joining IHS Markit Mr d'Avack worked for Capgemini, a consultancy, and for Bloomberg New Energy Finance where he has analyzed global solar markets since 2007. Mr d'Avack holds a Bsc in Economics and Environmental Policy from the London School of Economics and a Master's degree from Sciences Po Paris in Economic Governance. He speaks English, French, and German.

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Cormac Gilligan

Mr. Gilligan is responsible for managing the research of the global PV inverter and Balance Of System (BOS) markets, regularly publishing research reports on these topics, and supporting many of the leading suppliers via custom research and consulting engagements. He supports detailed coverage of the energy storage industry, carrying out research and authoring reports on the quickly growing market for storage inverters. Mr. Gilligan is widely regarded as a leading authority on the global PV inverter market, analysis and commentary is regularly published by leading PV industry media and the global press. He has presented at many leading industry events and conferences. Prior to joining IHS Markit, Mr. Gilligan worked as a civil engineer developing rail and metro projects across capital cities throughout Europe. Mr. Gilligan graduated from University College Dublin with a degree in engineering and is based in Dublin, Ireland.

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Julian Jansen

Julian Jansen is an Associate Director in the Climate & Sustainability Consulting team at IHS Markit. He leads the group's consulting activities on clean energy technologies. Mr Jansen has over 8 years of consulting and research experience in the energy sector - focusing on energy storage, distributed energy resources, system flexibility, renewable energy and the interplay between e-mobility and the energy industry. Previously, he led IHS Markit's global energy storage research team, providing deep insight on key value drivers and emerging business models accelerating storage deployment across the world, as well as covering technology development and the competitive landscape.Prior to joining IHS Markit, he established and managed the energy storage research area at specialist consultancy firm Delta-ee. Mr. Jansen holds a Bachelor of Business Administration in European management from Lancaster University, United Kingdom, a Bachelor of Science in international management from ESB Business School in Germany, and a Master of Science in ecological economics from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland.

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Alex Klaessig

Mr. Klaessig specializes in understanding how environmental regulation, technology, and innovation drive change in North American electric power markets. In addition to cochairing the IHS Markit Energy Innovation Pioneers program, Mr. Klaessig has been instrumental in several IHS Markit studies, including "Hydrogen in the Golden State." He has authored numerous reports on research into air quality regulations and retrofit/retirement decisions on coal-fired generation, as well as trends in technologies like cogeneration. Prior to joining IHS Markit, Mr. Klaessig consulted for Abt Associates, primarily on US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) contracts. Supporting the EPA, Mr. Klaessig focused on modeling the economic impact of proposed rulemakings and identifying noncompliance with environmental regulations. Mr. Klaessig holds a Bachelor of Science in physics from the University of Delaware, United States, and a Master of Public Policy from American University, United States.

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Deborah Mann

Ms. Mann was the project research lead on the IHS Markit studies "Hydrogen: The missing piece of the zero-carbon puzzle" and "Beyond the Flame: The transformation of Europe's heat sector," and she has authored numerous reports on subjects including energy storage, power to gas, sector coupling, renewable heat, energy efficiency, and carbon capture and utilization. Ms. Mann joined IHS Markit in 2007, leading a team producing European power market fundamentals analysis and modeling, as well as long-term European energy outlooks. Her previous experience includes 15 years in oil refining and gas conversion with BP, where she carried out various techno-economic appraisal and strategic studies, and for M W Kellogg, where she set up and ran a refinery planning group. A chartered chemical engineer, Ms. Mann is a member of the Institution of Chemical Engineers and of the Energy Institute. Educated in the United Kingdom, Ms. Mann holds Master of Arts and Master of Engineering degrees from the University of Cambridge and a Master of Science from Kingston University.

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Youmin Rong, Ph.D.

Dr. Rong focuses on analyzing the global battery industry and energy storage markets in APAC. Dr. Rong also provides input to customers with regard to next-generation technology, e-mobility, clean energy transition, and net-zero carbon future. Prior to joining IHS Markit, Dr. Rong served as the project lead and investment advisor for advanced batteries at NIO (the first Chinese electric vehicle company publicly listed in New York Stock Exchange). In addition to his industrial experience, Dr. Rong attended Stanford University as an Energy Research Fellow, where he developed scientific research in advanced battery technology. Based on his research findings, he has published over 15 papers in leading internationally peer-reviewed journals. Dr. Rong completed his Postdoctoral Fellowship at Stanford University, and holds a PhD from the University of Oxford, as well as MEng and BEng from Imperial College London.

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Eduard Sala de Vedruna

Mr. Sala de Vedruna and his team deliver competitive strategy and market analysis to developers, utilities, and renewables equipment manufacturers on key trends and market opportunities. He is the author of numerous IHS Markit reports, including analyses of business models and competitive strategies employed by equipment manufacturers, utilities, and developers in the global renewables sector. Mr. Sala de Vedruna has more than 17 years of consulting and research experience in the energy sector with a focus on market analysis and competitive strategy, particularly with the global renewables market. He has worked on numerous tailored consulting assignments providing strategic advice and recommendations. Prior to joining IHS Markit, he was responsible for market research and management consulting at International Venture Consultants, where he contributed to a variety of projects for major oil and gas companies. Mr. Sala de Vedruna holds a degree in economics from the University of Barcelona, Spain. He is based in Paris and is fluent in English, Spanish and French.

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Soufien Taamallah, Ph.D.

Dr. Taamallah is a director at IHS Markit focused on energy technologies and hydrogen research. He is an expert in energy systems and a technical lead in the IHS Markit hydrogen initiative. He has extensive academic and industry experience in the energy field, from startups to large multinationals. Prior to joining IHS Markit, Dr. Taamallah was a senior research and development engineer at L3 Open Water Power, a startup developing novel fuel cells for powering unmanned underwater vehicles. He also worked at General Electric's Global Research Center as a combustion test and computational fluid dynamics engineer. Before that, he was a research assistant in the Reacting Gas Dynamics Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, pursuing his doctoral studies on fuel flexibility in gas turbine combustion. Dr. Taamallah served in the French Naval Aviation, and he holds a Bachelor of Science in mechanical engineering with a minor in economics from Ecole Polytechnique, France, a Master of Science in energy engineering and science from Ecole des Mines de Paris, France, and a doctorate in mechanical engineering and computation from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States.

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Andrei Utkin

Mr. Utkin's responsibilities include global renewable market research, contribution to long-term forecasts, cost projections, and asset ownership worldwide. His interests encompass offshore wind and nonmainstream technologies including geothermal and ocean energy. He assists with the global scenarios and with detailed Multiclient Studies. Mr. Utkin has more than eight years of project management experience in energy efficiency and renewable energy projects. Previously, he worked with Enertime SA, where he was a project manager of Organic Rankine Cycle cogeneration power plant projects based on renewable energy sources. Prior to that, he worked in Belarus as a project manager of energy efficiency projects and as an energy efficiency consultant. Mr. Utkin holds a bachelor's degree in construction engineering (Power Plant Construction and Engineering Services Faculty) from the Belarusian National Technical University in Minsk and a master's degree in international energy from Sciences Po in Paris, France. He is fluent in Russian, Belarusian, Ukrainian, English, and French.

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Sam Wilkinson

Mr. Wilkinson coordinates and contributes to a wide range of custom research, consulting, and advisory projects, in addition to continued contributions to the team's syndicated research products. His areas of expertise are solar PV, battery technology and supply chain, and battery energy storage (for grid applications).Upon joining the team in 2008, He was responsible for researching the photovoltaic (PV) inverter market and the PV module and polysilicon supply chain, working closely with leading global suppliers to develop detailed analysis on these markets. He has also been responsible for establishing primary research reports focusing on solar demand and policy, complementing IHS Markit extensive research of the complete PV supply chain. Building on his experience in the solar research team, Mr. Wilkinson established the Clean Energy Technology team's coverage of energy storage in 2012, covering a wide range of topics within this fast-developing sector, including the development of battery technology and the battery supply chain. Mr. Wilkinson's analysis and commentary is regularly published by leading PV and energy industry media and the global press. He has also presented at many leading industry events and conferences and previously worked in structural engineering. He holds a bachelor's degree in math and engineering from the University of Nottingham, United Kingdom.

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Edurne Zoco, Ph.D.

Dr. Zoco provides experience, analysis, and actionable insight to our customers on the solar PV supply chain and the development of global demand for PV and its role in the wider energy transition. She contributes to a broad range of deliverables across the research team, including both subscription products and custom research and consulting projects. Dr. Zoco has been involved in the solar industry for over a decade and has presented at leading industry events and conferences since 2007. Prior to joining IHS Markit, she was employed by Trina Solar, a leading PV manufacturer where she held global positions within corporate and strategic marketing. She holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Notre Dame, United States. She speaks English, French, Spanish, and Italian.

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Indrayuth Mukherjee

Mr. Mukherjee has over 6 years of consulting and research experience in the energy sector with a focus on market analysis and competitive strategy. He focuses on renewable power markets globally with a special focus on wind energy. Mr. Mukherjee's responsibilities include leading the onshore wind research agenda, building and coordinating global deliverables and insights on topics including market activity, technology evolution, supply chain, ownership rankings, recycling, and cost projections. He also supports in building our global outlooks and assists various consulting assignments and multi-client studiesPrior to joining IHS Markit in 2015, Mr. Mukherjee was working with Transparency Market Research where he contributed to market research reports, technology research, and other customized research for the renewable energy, upstream, midstream, and other global energy sectors.Mr. Mukherjee holds a Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science from the Institute of Engineering & Management, Kolkata. He also holds a Master of Business Administration in Power Management from the University of Petroleum and Energy Studies, Dehradun

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