How E.ON drives the global energy transition through foresight
Thomas Boermans shares how foresight at E.ON captures future risks & opportunities, shaping the energy transition through strategic insights.
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Energy programs run for twenty years. Policy changes every four years. Winners build portfolios that hold direction through the cycles and adjust at the moment the economics shift.
Assess the technologies that will reach the grid
Green hydrogen, battery storage, CCS, floating offshore wind. The candidate list is public. Track each on one radar and rate maturity, cost curves, and fit. Prism flags what touches your asset base. The weak candidates drop out before they reach a budget line.
Align partners across the value chain
No energy project ships alone. Utilities, IPPs, grid operators, and regulators each hold a piece. Run shared workspaces where every partner sees the same status, submits input through one channel, and works against the same milestones.
Bring field and community input into decisions
Operations teams spot the problem first. Communities decide whether a project gets built at all. Collect input from both in structured campaigns, evaluate it against your criteria, and route what matters into project decisions. Contributors see the outcome.
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Keep energy programs on schedule
A transition program spans sites, suppliers, and permitting authorities. Delays hide in the handoffs. Map every program on one roadmap with owners, dependencies, and dates. Slippage surfaces when it forms, months before the review would catch it.
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Make the digital portfolio add up
Smart meters, grid automation, forecasting AI. Every unit runs its own digital projects. Few can say what they sum to. Map all initiatives on one transformation roadmap with status and owners. Leadership sees what moves, what stalls, and what overlaps.
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