How can firms and energy-system actors design operations, contracts, and coordination mechanisms that make clean-energy technologies reliably profitable and accessible under limited, uncertain, or shifting policy support — to provide clean power to all people?
The research agenda is organized into three overarching areas — expanding access, scaling clean supply, and coordinating decentralized systems — and twelve sub-challenges. Click an area to open it, and a sub-challenge to see its literature. This framing follows Kaps, Netessine, Rana & Karaduman, OM Grand Challenges: SDG 7.
How to accelerate affordable clean-energy access and adoption?
Closing access and adoption gaps by improving the business models, contracts, and field operations that make clean energy affordable and usable for heterogeneous customers.
How to accelerate the rollout of reliably profitable decentralized energy systems?
Addressing the full lifecycle of renewable assets — from siting through decommissioning — where an asset's value differs from its raw output.
How to match renewable supply and demand across short- and long-term timescales?
Orchestrating millions of small, heterogeneous, strategic resources — flexible loads, batteries, and prosumers — rather than dispatching a handful of large, controllable plants.
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