Sustainability Service
The complex interplay of business innovation, industrial policy, and capital investment that defines the energy transition will ultimately reshape the global economy. We can help you embrace a pragmatic, flexible approach that generates near-term value and addresses your long-term goals.
The energy transition ranks among the most critical challenges of our age, as companies and countries confront the dual challenge of reducing emissions while meeting increased demand.
A host of transition barriers and market uncertainties, from labor issues, more stringent governmental regulations, and political and macroeconomic disruption to customers’ willingness to pay, have combined to create a very challenging mid-transition period that threatens to slow progress.
Amid it all, leaders must remain focused on commercial realities, because clean technology solutions can only scale when they produce returns. A shift in focus, from long-term net-zero goals predicated on a 2050 timeframe to practical actions spanning the next 5 to 15 years, can be a strategic game changer. It enables you to assess the dynamics of policy and innovation transforming your industry and determine how best to invest in the new, low-carbon technologies, business models, and supply chains at the heart of the energy transition.
Companies that take this approach can conquer complexity and generate significant returns. Our role as the leading global advisor to cutting-edge players in the energy ecosystem, augmented by our extensive financial investor practice, makes us uniquely situated to understand the challenges confronting capital-intensive and non-capital-intensive transition-related businesses. Our energy transition consulting team will cocreate a solution with you that drives the learning curve down and the deployment curve up so you can achieve value more quickly. Our approach ensures that your strategy remains viable under a range of scenarios and can be dynamically adjusted to eliminate the uncertainties that paralyze action, address the uncertainties that hamper performance, and support robust, resilient decision making.
Our comprehensive approach emphasizes a reasonable timeframe for value creation, identifies transition barriers, and narrows the scope of the unknowns that companies will need to anticipate and respond to. We’ll also help you seize opportunities to create value across your organization, including procurement, supply chain, customer experience, and full potential strategy.
Understand where you stand in the energy transition and where near- and long-term value will come from.
Create differentiated strategies and manage risks to win in the energy transition.
Identify opportunities for new businesses in low-carbon adjacencies that may become tomorrow’s core businesses.
Develop a stronger supply chain that’s more resilient, diversified, and designed for new product requirements.
Deploy capital more efficiently to scale major projects and implement lower carbon solutions.
Partner with customers to meet their needs with new offerings; support efficient energy product use.
Reduce your own carbon footprint and collaborate with suppliers and partners to address upstream emissions.
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energy transition consulting engagements since 2017
leaders with relevant energy, industry, and sustainability expertise
Market uncertainty and performance pressure are constants in this sector. We help you achieve full potential, build resilience, and reduce risk across the value chain. Our experts transform organizations into leaner, more nimble entities, tackling price volatility, supply chain disruption, and the shift to alternative energy.
Utilities face intense challenges, including evolving regulations, physical risk, and increasing customer demands. We can help you turn adversity into opportunity with strategies that drive growth, foster operational excellence, and help you meet customer needs and clean energy goals. Our expertise spans power, gas, renewables, and more.
With deep experience across all major subsectors, our expert teams guide you through today’s turbulence so your organization becomes more agile and resilient than ever before. We work with you to develop powerful, tailored strategies that address new customer needs, M&A, digital transformation, cost management, and more.
Disruptive technologies, global competition, and ecological challenges are forcing agribusiness companies to rethink every aspect of operations. We can help you innovate sustainably as you embrace regenerative agriculture, biofuels, and other promising developments and techniques that maximize yields and redefine your operating model.
The mining industry is already playing a key role in the energy transition, and that role will continue to grow as the energy transition gains momentum. We can help you meet changing customer needs, optimize portfolios, deliver capital projects more efficiently and effectively, achieve your sustainability goals, and deploy the latest digital technologies to unlock unprecedented value.
The focus on sustainability was already redefining virtually every aspect of the industry, and now the energy transition poses additional, related challenges. Our expertise and robust ecosystem of best-in-class partners can accelerate your journey to sustainable packaging and help you craft a winning approach that addresses uncertainty and the need for scale.
As this sector races into a digital future, it must not only navigate its own sustainability and energy transition challenges but also gear up to play an essential role in producing the transformers, emissions capture equipment, and other machinery essential to the energy transition. We can help companies seize opportunities on both sides of the equation.
From navigating the EV battery ecosystem to exploring the potential of clean hydrogen, the automotive and mobility industry knows that the “road to net zero” is anything but straight. We can support you through the shift to alternative energy and fuels, ensuring you make the right investments, deploy the most effective technologies, and assess rapidly evolving consumer preferences and behaviors.
Our aviation consulting expertise helps you navigate the energy transition by optimizing the use of alternative fuels, exploring carbon offsets, and understanding the needs of different stakeholders. We can show you how to provide personalized experiences to your customers, embrace automation for efficiency, and seize opportunities as markets shift and evolve.
As virtually all companies adapt to major supply chain disruptions, the critical role played by global logistics has become a top priority for leadership teams. Our freight and logistics expertise helps you tackle labor shortages, fluctuating fuel prices, and sustainability concerns. We work across express, parcel, trucking, rail, shipping, and more to enhance your operations and seize growth opportunities.
We expect the tipping point for e-mobility to be reached by 2026, with increased consumer demand leading to mass adoption of electric vehicles. Our deep expertise across every component of the e-mobility value chain can help you accelerate progress and achieve a winning edge.
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We have teamed with leading companies to augment our energy transition expertise with the best available technology, engineering, and modeling. These partnerships ensure that we develop effective, tailored solutions for your organization that generate tangible results in the near term and over the long haul.
For sustainability, 2023 was the year boundless excitement gave way to realism as the challenge of meeting bold commitments became clear. Bain’s 2024 guide explores how leaders can meet the moment with pragmatism.
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Our work in the social sector harnesses our environmental expertise and insights—all for the greater good. We are dedicated to working with nonprofits, organizations, and coalitions such as OpenMinds, WBCSD, RMI, and others to address critical challenges in the carbon and energy transition, focusing on solutions that accelerate the energy transition and help organizations create value.
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Le secteur public façonne le cadre dans lequel opèrent les marchés mondiaux ; le secteur social intervient là où les gouvernements et les marchés ne parviennent pas à aider les communautés défavorisées. De plus en plus, les acteurs de ce secteur adoptent des modèles de changement innovants et s’appuient sur les connaissances, les méthodes et les partenaires du secteur privé pour atteindre leurs objectifs. Grâce à sa large expérience des secteurs privés, publics et sociaux, Bain est favorablement positionné pour aider ses clients à transformer les communautés à travers le monde.
