A sustainable Energy Transition Enabled by Digital Technologies

1. Introduction

• Global warming, climate change and CO2 emissions.
• Paris accord and COP meetings.
• The concept of sustainability.
• Statistics on emissions, global warming, and climate change.
• The Digital Transformation – Energy Transition – Sustainability trilogy

2. Digitally Enabled Energy Transition (I)

• What is the Energy Transition.
• How is the Energy Transition happening.
• The 3DER acronym
• Electrification
• Digitalization
• Decarbonization
• Decentralization
• Resilience

3. Is it the Same for Every Player? Why Not?

• Region by region, country by country.
• Operators vs service companies.
• Consumers vs “prosumers”.

4. Renewable Energies How they Work, Strengths & Weaknesses

• Hydro.
• Solar
• Photovoltaic
• Thermic, centralized, distributed.
• Eolic (Offshore, onshore).
• Geothermal (Low and high enthalpy)
• Waves, tidal.
• Nuclear
• Fusion, fission

5. A digitally enabled energy transition (I)

• Carbon capture and sequestration (CCUS).
• Hydrogen.
• Battery storage.
• Key success factors.
• The economics of the energy transition and investment statistics.
• Levelized cost of electricity (LCOE).
• Financial markets and private investment.
• Regulatory factors – Carbon tax, tax credits.
• Political, geopolitical, and social pressures.
• Technology advances (efficiency, cost, durability , reliability, etc. ).
• Statistics of the Energy Transition (IEA, BP, IRENA and others).
• Vehicle to grid (V2G), smart grids, virtual power plants, virtual storage and energy communities.

6. Digital transformation: the key enabler of the Energy Transition (I)

• What is Digital Transformation and why this time is not just technology innovation?.
• How is Digital Transformation happening.
• From HIPPO (Highest Paid Person’s Opinion) to DBDM (Data Based Decision Making).
• Atoms vs Bits economy.
• Core vs Crowd resources.
• Digital products, process, and services.
• Digital technologies of today.
• Main categories: Capture, transmission, storage, visualization, processing and decision making.
• The omnipresent Excel and discrete SW 
• Storage: Data lakes, data warehouse, data ecosystems.
• Processing: Data mining, BI, Dashboards, BPMs and block chain
• Decision making: Virtual and extended reality, advanced analytics, machine learning, Artificial Intelligence, Deep learning.
• Underlying technologies: Cloud and edge computing, blockchain, quantum computing.
• Value schemes: IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, DaaS, and other “as a service”.
• Examples of digital recipes: Industry 4.0, Digital Twins and Digital threads, logistics optimization.

7. Digital Transformation: The key Enabler of the Energy Transition (II)

• Enterprise architecture.
• Digital strategy design and execution.
• Identifying, mapping, and prioritizing digital transformation opportunities.
• Building a digital roadmap.
• Digital projects management and value realization.
• Change management in the digital era.

8. Case Studies Analysis

• Exploration and Production cases.
• Energy case studies.
• A glimpse of the future and timeline.
• Future impact of key emerging technologies.
• Quantum computing for scenario and technology simulations / development.
• AI for Eolic farms generation optimization.
• Nuclear Fusion.

9. Wrap up Conclusions and Closure