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The new energy industry playbook
14 lessons from energy industry leaders to move from single initiatives to portfolio strategy
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Overview
96% of industrial companies invest in energy efficiency. Aggregate progress: around 1%. The problem is not commitment, technology, or capital. It is governance. E nergy decisions trapped in payback calculations and spreadsheets of disconnected projects, while energy quietly becomes a boardroom-level constraint on growth.
The top 5% run energy differently. Companies like BASF, Dow, and Norsk Hydro govern energy the way they govern R&D: as a balanced portfolio of efficiency gains, sourcing bets, and long-horizon technology positions.
In this report:
- Why 96% of industrial companies invest in efficiency and progress still plateaus at the efficiency ceiling
- The payback trap: how rational project decisions produce irrational energy portfolios
- A maturity model for industrial energy governance, from project lists to Stage 4 portfolio discipline
- How BASF, Dow, and Norsk Hydro run energy like an R&D portfolio
- What industrial leaders can copy from the hyperscaler energy playbook