Energy and Utilities

Environmental, economic, and geopolitical crises have made energy and utilities national and international priorities. Whether it's using less carbon, or sequestering it; saving municipal water, or extracting useful waste products from it; creating green jobs; or a host of other issues, the demands are increasing on safety-conscious and tradition-bound energy and utilities companies to innovate.

Lux Research's Intelligence services help corporations, investors, and governments scout opportunities in emerging technologies in many areas of advanced energy and materials. Specifically for energy and utilities companies, our services cover:

• Solar Systems: utility-scale photovoltaics, concentrated solar power (CSP)/solar thermal
• Alternative Fuels: bio-based fuels, cellulosic biomass, pellets
• Smart Grid and Grid Storage: smart grid technologies, grid-scale energy storage (including advanced lithium-ion batteries, molten salt batteries, compressed air, flywheels)
• Electric Vehicles: grid integration of plug-in hybrids and all-electric vehicles
• Water: filtration, desalination, remediation, water management, waste-to-energy
• Energy Electronics: high voltage and high power grid-scale switches
• Sustainable Building Materials: advanced insulation, dynamic windows, structural materials, BIPV 
• Efficient Building Systems: building energy management systems, energy-efficient appliances, sensors and controls, smart windows and lighting, global policy outlook, ESCOs

We help our energy and utility clients tap internal and outside resources in order to accelerate their innovation initiatives, as well as understand how their peers approach these vital issues.