CRA has built technology databases and assessed the development of technology roll-outs on behalf of a major oil company to provide insights on the energy transition in various geographies across the world. This has helped the company to develop proprietary long-term techno-economic forecasts to 2050 in order to inform long-term portfolio choices, R&D strategy, and transition pathways. CRA also provided detailed insights into ‘key sectors’ in certain major developing markets where decarbonisation of energy supply would provide the highest impact.
Weathering the storm: Utility resource planning in the face of weather-driven reliability risks
The authors assessed how modeling different weather year scenarios in capacity expansion planning can impact resource investment decisions and the resulting...