Renewable energy and electrification

Watch this Chapter Zero and Deloitte Academy webinar, where we hosted a critical discussion with leading private and public investors to explore where investors are placing their bets in the energy transition, what are the optimal financing models for emerging technologies, and more.

Published 6 February 2025, Bloomberg's Zero: The Climate Race podcast tackles the UK government pledge to achieve 95% clean power by 2030.

In this report the Energy Transitions Commission dives into the natural resources and materials needed to meet the needs of the transition.

The 2025 Nobel Prize in Economics highlights how continuous innovation and creative destruction underpin long-term economic growth, providing a powerful lens for understanding today’s global energy transition.

Systems Change Lab looks at five shifts needed to decarbonise industry.

Jules Kortenhorst, Co-Chair of the Energy Transitions Commission (as well as CEO of Bridge Carbon, Non-executive Director at Enstall and Chapter Zero member), says it is the fiduciary responsibility of boards to manage risks associated with climate change, including physical asset risks and transition risks. He highlights the importance of clean electrification and its cost-effectiveness compared with oil and gas price volatility.

As if the energy trilemma – transition, affordability and security – were not hard enough; 2026 has made the situation so much more complex. For boards, oversight of decarbonisation, energy costs, geopolitics, supply chain complications and the availability/pricing of fuel just got tougher. Governing for energy security is a challenge in every sector; but there is evidence that the prospects for investment look promising.

Read Deloitte's Financing the UK energy transition blog from March 2025, which uses an investor survey to decipher what is required for companies to hit their decarbonisation targets and reach the next step in their energy transition journey.

Race to Resilience and Race to Zero present clear, simple mitigation breakthrough goals defined for ~30 major sectors in the economy.

The Energy Transitions Commission report, Power Systems Transformation: Delivering Competitive, Resilient Electricity in High-Renewable Systems sets out the case for how wind and solar generation can reliably deliver electricity at costs comparable to or lower than current fossil fuel-based power systems in most parts of the world. A useful read for boards looking to understand the possibilities of the global energy transition.

Three “super-leverage points” could trigger a cascade of tipping points for zero-carbon solutions in sectors covering 70% of global greenhouse gas emissions, according to ‘The Breakthrough Effect’, a report presented at the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos in January 2023.